In 1898 Voynich opened a bookshop in London, followed by another in 1914 in New York. Īfter the 1895 death of Stepniak in a railway crossing accident, the Voyniches (as they had anglicized their surname) ceased revolutionary activity. With Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky, a fellow revolutionary, he founded the Society of Friends for a Free Russia in London. In 1893 he married a fellow-revolutionary, Ethel Lilian Boole, daughter of the famous British mathematician, George Boole. In 1890 he escaped from Siberia and arrived in London, adopting as his first name his nom de guerre, Wilfryd. The attempt failed allegedly due to a traitor, and Bardowski and Kunicki were hanged on 28 January 1886, while Woynicz and others were arrested by the Tsarist police and, in 1887, he was sent to penal servitude at Tunka. Bielanowski of the gendarmerie, from whom he elicited the passwords for the planned escape of Piotr Bardowski (1846-1886) and Stanisław Kunicki (1861-1886), former members of Narodnaya Volia and both sentenced to death, from the Citadel. He was vital for the organization as a stranger who spoke fluent Russian, so could gain favour of a renegade Pole, Lieut.-Col. In 1885, in Warsaw, Wojnicz joined Ludwik Waryński's revolutionary organization, Proletarjat. Petersberg, and graduated from Moscow University in chemistry and pharmacy. He studied at the universities in Warsaw and St. ![]() He was the son of a titular counsellor (described by Prinke as a "petty official"). Michał Wojnicz was born in Telshi - a town in then Kovno Governorate, which was part of the Russian Empire, now it is Telšiai, a town in Lithuania - into a Polish-Lithuanian noble family. ![]() ![]() Wilfrid Michael Voynich (Telshi, Russian Empire, 31 October 1865 – New York City, United States, 19 March 1930), born Michał Habdank-Wojnicz, was a Polish revolutionary, British and American antiquarian and bibliophile, and the eponym of the Voynich manuscript.
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