Ivan Narodny

Ivan Ivanovich Narodny (Russian: Иван Иванович Нородны) (1870–1953) was a Russian émigré who came to New York in 1906 with Maxim Gorky to raise the profile of the Revolutionary Movement in Russia.[1][2]

Narodny was born in Estonia with the original name Jaan Sibbul.[3][4] He was the son of Jaan Sibbul (1840–1920) and Madli Ago (1830–1919).[5]

According to FBI files he had been imprisoned in Estonia in 1898.[6] In an interview in the New York Times he said he had been involved in revolutionary activity in Kronstadt during the 1905 revolution.

Narodny organized a dinner in honor of Gorky on 12 April at the A Club Fifth Avenue and provided a setting for the announcement of a new committee to support the proposed Russian Revolution. This committee included Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Robert J. Collier and Finley Peter Dunne.[7]

In 1915 the Russian Imperial Government published adverstiments in New York newspapers to undermine him presenting himself as a self-proclaimed “Russian Chamber of Commerce”. He was involved in the arms trade selling munitions to Russia via Japan and Vladivostock.[2]

In 1916 he had an article about Mikhail Artsybashev published in Drama.[8]

In 1917, following the February Revolution Narodny presented himself as head of the Russian-American Asiatic Corporation and announced that the Russian Duma was forming the "United States of Russia".[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Political Radicals". Hotel Albert. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  2. 1 2 Doets, Jan. "Mouassia 14:". Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  3. ↑ Geni.com Ivan Narodny/Jaan Sibbul
  4. ↑ Eesti Enstüklopeedia. Vol. 14, p.319. Tallinn, 2000
  5. ↑ "Jaan Sibbul Narodny". Ancestry.com. Ancestry. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  6. ↑ Schmidt, Barbara. "...knife a Romanoff whereever you find him...". twainquotes.com. Barbara Schmidt. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  7. ↑ "Gorky Honored Guest". New York Tribune (April 12, 1906): 4. 1906. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
  8. ↑ Leyda, Jay (1976). Kino Histoire Du Cinema Russe Et Sovietique. L'age d'homme.
  9. ↑ "Republic Being Formed by Duma". Oregon News (18 March 1917). 1917.
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