| Arthur Cherep-Spiridovich | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1858 |
| Died | 22 October 1926 Arrochar, New York City, United States |
| Occupation | soldier, political activist, writer |
| Notable work(s) | Secret World Government or The Hidden Hand |
Not to be confused with Alexander Spiridovich.
Arthur Cherep-Spiridovich (1858—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 and White Russian activism, including various chivalric orders and cultural organisations, amongst the diaspora community in America. Spiridovich is perhaps best known for authoring a book positing various conspiracy theories entitled "Secret World Government or The Hidden Hand".
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Spiridovitch was President of the Slavonic Society of Russia and 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 Walter Laqueur:
| “ | Count (General) Cherep-Spiridovich had his headquarters in the United States; he was even more obviously a clinical case than some of his colleagues. He introduced himself in his books as 'The Slav Pope', 'The Slav Bismarck','The possessor of the faculty to foresee events' | ” |
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| “ | and combined Barnum promotion techniques with propagation of the stories supplied by his European friends. The results have to be read to be believed. Even so, 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. | ” |
Walter Laqueur, Russia and Germany (1965), p. 120.