death_date religion birth_place nationality birth_date known_for article_title name occupation
1921 christian -lrb- doukhobor -rrb- bogdanovka -lrb- now ninotsminda -rrb- , georgia russian 1869 writing conscientious objectors in russian empire , and a number of a other works on doukhobor life and history report on the treatment of the doukhobor vasily pozdnyakov
 vasily nikolaevich pozdnyakov peasant ; conscientious objector ; author .
vasily pozdnyakov

vasily nikolaevich pozdnyakov -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- 1869-1921 -rrb- was one of the members of the russian doukhobor community who in 1895 declared themselves conscientious objectors .
severely punished and exiled to yakutia , he escaped and wrote an important account of his and his comrades ' story , published internationally .
he also authored a number of articles about the doukhobor life in russian empire and canada .
