Frey

(William), the adopted name of a Ru ian Positivist and philanthropist, b. of noble family, the son of a general, 1839. Educated at the higher military school, St. Petersburg, he became teacher in a Government High School, and disgusted with the oppre ion and degradation of his country he went to New York in 1866 where he established co-operative communities and also Ru ian colonies in Kansas and Oregon. In 1884 he came to London in order to influence his countrymen. In ’87 he revisited Ru ia. Died 6 Nov. 1888.