Gregory Petrovich Maximoff (1893-1950) was a well-known Russian anarchist. He was born in Mitoshino in the Smolensk area and studied to be a Russian Orthodox priest. But he became involved in the revolutionary movement, and while a student of the Agricultural Academy in St. Petersburg, he became an anarchist. During the First World War, he was in the army, and in 1915 he was condemned to death for insubordination, but was not executed. During the revolution he was arrested in 1921, but freed and exiled thanks to intervention of European syndicalists. He settled in Berlin, then in Paris and in 1926 went to the U.S.A.
He wrote for several syndicalist journals in Russian and English. The Alexander Berkman Aid Fund published several of his books in English.
