Name Arthur Cherep-Spiridovich | Role Author | |
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Occupation soldier, political activist, writer Notable works Secret World Government or The Hidden Hand Died October 22, 1926, Arrochar, New York City, New York, United States | ||
Arthur Cherep-Spiridovich (1858 – 22 October 1926) was a Russian count who moved to the United States following the Bolshevik Revolution. He was a Tsarist general and white Russian loyalist. He was involved in Pan-Slavism, White Russian and anti-semitic activism, including various chivalric orders and cultural organisations, amongst the diaspora community in America. Spiridovich is perhaps best known for authoring a book positing a concise conspiracy consisting of 300 Jewish families, titled Secret World Government or The Hidden Hand.
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Biography
Spiridovitch was President of the Slavonic Society of Russia and also of the Latino-Slavic League of Paris and Rome. Politically he was a supporter of the Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and an opponent of Bolshevism. According to Lord Alfred Douglas, well-known men like Henry Ford and newspapers like the Financial Times in London took him seriously and helped him to reach a fairly wide public.
Death
Cherep-Spiridovich died in a Staten Island hotel, with a gas line pipe stuck in his throat. The police reported that he had committed suicide. However, when the body was discovered at the hotel by the staff, the gas line was shut off. No autopsy was performed and no further investigation put into the case.