Alexander Mandelstamm, revolutionary leader, known by the name Odissey, died when he fell from a bridge. He was 51 years old.
Mandelstamm was imprisoned four times during the Czaristic regime and was also exiled to Siberia. Lately he was the editor of a Communist Russian daily, “Krestyanskaya Gazeta.”
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