 In Geneva, he pretended to be a representative of a revolutionary committee who had fled from the Peter and Paul Fortress, and he won the confidence of revolutionary-in-exile Mikhail Bakunin and his friend Nikolay Ogarev.Bakunin played a prominent part in developing and elaborating the theory of anarchism and in leading the anarchist movement.He left a deep imprint on the movement of the Russian "revolutionary commoners" of the 1870s.