Background
Nikolai Konstantinovich Sudzilovsky was born on December 15, 1850 in Mogilev, Mahilyowskaya Voblasts', Belarus in an impoverished noble family. There were 8 children in the Sudzilowski family. Nikolai was the eldest son.
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Nikolai Konstantinovich Sudzilovsky was born on December 15, 1850 in Mogilev, Mahilyowskaya Voblasts', Belarus in an impoverished noble family. There were 8 children in the Sudzilowski family. Nikolai was the eldest son.
Nikolai Konstantinovich graduated summa cum laude from grammar school in Mahilyow. He entered the Saint Petersburg University law department but dropped out on the next year and entered medical department of the Kiev University where he did not finish his studies.
Nikolai Konstantinovich began to get involved in political activity being one of the organisers of the Kiev commune, a left-wing student organisation in 1873-1874. Getting a job of medical assistant at the Nikolayev prison, he tried to arrange mass escape of the prisoners, but his plot failed and he had to flee from Russia escaping arrest in 1875.
Then Nikolai studied at the University of Bucharest. In 1877, he got the degree of Doctor of Medicine.
In 1876 under the pseudonym Nicholas Russel, Nikolai Konstantinovich took part in the Bulgarian April Uprising against the Ottoman Empire. Russel was one of the organisers of the socialist movement in Romania, published a socialist paper, and carried out socialist propaganda among the Russian troops during the Russo-Turkish war. Romanian authorities expelled him from the country.
In 1887, Nikolai Konstantinovich moved to San Francisco and later Hawaii, becoming an American citizen. There he became a founder of the Home Rule Party of Hawaii in 1892, which opposed Hawaii's joining the United States. In 1900 under the name Kauka Lukini, Nikolai Konstantinovich was elected Hawaii Senator, in 1901 was elected as 1st Hawaii Senate President.
During the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 Nikolai Konstantinovich actively conducted socialist propaganda among Russian prisoners of war. Following the demands of Russia's foreign minister, the US government revoked his citizenship. He spent the last years of his life in the Philippines and China.
Nikolai Konstantinovich was author of several works on medicine and sociology and was member of the American Genetics Society.
Nikolai Sudzilovsky had great influence over the development of revolutionary movements in Rumania and Bulgaria. During Russo-Japanese war, he was allowed to organize a committee of assistance to Russian prisoners of war. He spread among them enlightenment and revolutionary propaganda, circulated revolutionary publications.
Nikolai Konstantinovich conducted revolutionary propaganda among the Russian troops during the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878. Collaborated in a foreign newspaper, P.L. Lavrov, "Forward!", Later participated in the delivery of Russian editions of the "Emancipation of Labour". For his subversive activities Romanian government expelled him from the country.
Nikolai wanted to make the world better. He was a great revolutionist. He fought for the freedom of rights and against steeped in debauchery and gluttony priests. He followed the ideas of Marx and Engels.
When Nikolai lived in London, he said, that this was the city, where he felt the most loneliness. He also did not like "free" America. He wrote that America was the state based on extreme individualism and spoilt by civilization.
Nikolai Konstantinovich Sudzilovsky was also a member of the Genetics Society of America, several scientific organizations of Japan and China.
Nikolai Konstantinovich was a very well-educated person, had a command of eight European languages, of Japanese and Chinese. He was a talented physician, a professional revolutionary, a tireless traveler, natural scientist and bright publicist.
Quotes from others about the person
The newest philosophical dictionary named Nikolay Sudzilovsky: "the first and last Encyclopaedist of the XX-th century."
Nikolai Konstantinovich Sudzilovsky was married three times and had 4 his own and 2 adopted children.
Konstantin Stepanovich Sudzilovski was a secretary of the Mogilev Chamber of the National and Criminal Court.
