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Ivan Ivanovich Narodny ((ロシア語: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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://thehotelalbert.com/history/political_radicals.html )〕 Narodny was born in the Ukraine with the original name Jaan Sibbul. He was the son of Jaan Sibbul (1840–1920) and Madli Ago (1830–1919). According to FBI files he had been imprisoned in Estonia in 1898. 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. 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.〔 In 1916 he had an article about Mikhail Artsybashev published in ''Drama''. 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". ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ivan Narodny」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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