Nikolai Fedoseev

[3]Fedoseyev also influenced the young itinerant baker, Aleksei Peshkov, who was later a world famous writer, under the name Maxim Gorky.

In his memoirs, Gorky recalled being invited to a secret meeting organised by Fedoseyev, to listen to a reading of Our Differences by Georgi Plekhanov, the founder of Russian Marxism.

The reading was interrupted by barracking from the audience, who objected to Plekhanov's criticism of Russian populism, one of whom suggested that it was an insult to the memory of Lenin's older brother, Aleksandr Ulyanov, who been hanged for plotting to assassinate the Tsar.

[2] In January 1892, he settled in Vladimir, made contact with other Marxists, and helped organise a strike in a factory owned by the Morozov family.

[6] He also travelled part of the journey to Siberia with two peasants named P.V.Olkovik and Kirill Sereda, Tolstoyans also exiled for refusing to do military service.