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Real humanity presents a mixture of all that is most sublime and beautiful with all that is vilest and most monstrous in the world.
Mikhail Bakunin
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Mikhail Bakunin
Age: 62 †
Born: 1814
Born: May 30
Died: 1876
Died: July 1
Anarchist
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Michael Bakunin
Michail Alexandrovich Bakunin
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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
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