English Society
The English Society of Friends of Russian Freedom was founded in April 1890. In 1892, the executive committee of the society included W. P. Byles, L. T. Hobhouse, Mrs. Edwin Human, Mrs. Oharies Mallet, Mrs. Edward R. Pease, Edward R. Pease, G.H. Perris, J Allonson Ploton, Herbert Rix, Geo. Standring, Adolphs Smith, Robert Spence Watson, Mrs. Wilfrid Voynich and William W. Mackenzie.
From 1890 to 1914 Society published Free Russia, a monthly newspaper edited by Sergei Stepniak and later Felix Volkhovsky.
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