This edition offers a new biography—perhaps of the most colorful figure of the world revolutionary movement of the 19th century: Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (1814–1876), whom contemporaries called “the father of anarchy,” “the apostle of freedom,” and “a citizen of the world.” Doctor of Philosophical Sciences V. N. Demin made an attempt to overcome the long-standing one-sided view of this extraordinary person, showing Bakunin not only surrounded by his wonderful family and great friends (Chaadaev, Belinsky, Turgenev, Herzen, Ogaryov, Richard Wagner, George Sand, Proudhon, Garibaldi, and others), but also as perceived by opponents, enemies, and falsifiers of his ideological legacy.