recalled incident involving Deutsch, and a Bolshevik named Vladimir Noskov, as the conference was ending: "Deutsch was angrily reprimanding 'Glebov' (Noskov) about something. The latter raised his head and with gleaming eyes said bitterly: 'You just keep your mouth shut, you old dodderer!'" During the 1905 Revolution Deutsch returned to Russia but was arrested and imprisoned. However, on the way to Siberia he escaped and made his way to London, starting a period of foreign exile which lasted until the February 1917 Russian Revolution. Exile and return From October 1915 to September 1916, Deutsch edited a monthly newspaper in New York City called Svobodnoe Slovo ("Free Word"). In 1917, Deutsch returned to Petrograd and joined George Plekhanov in editing Edinstvo ("Unity"). He also wrote his memoirs and edited a volume of documents associated with the Emancipation of Labour group. Deutsch adopted a "defencist" position during the rule of the Provisional Government and supported Russia's war efforts. He did not support the October Revolution which he considered to be a "Bolshevik adventure". After the death of Plekhanov, Deutsch withdrew from political activity. From 1928 he was a personal pensioner and published books about the history of the revolutionary movement and memoirs. Deutsch died on August 5, 1941 and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery. Personal life Deutsch never married, though his memoirs show that he had very friendly and affectionate relations with the wives of other revolutionaries, such as Pavel Axelrod. It is probable that he was gay, though he may not have been actively homosexual. During his imprisonment exile in Kara, he and Yakov Stefanovitch – the only exile ready to listen sympathetically to Deutsch's reasons for converting to Marxism – successfully appealed to the governor to be allowed to share a room away from other political exiles. One of their contemporaries, Sergei Kravchinsky, alias Stepnyak, writing while at a time when both men were in Europe, after their escape from Kiev prison, claimed that were "never separated except when absolutely compelled" adding, "and then they write long letters to each other every day, which they jealously keep, showing them to no one, affording thus a subject of everlasting ridicule among their friends." In London, in 1903, Deutsch, who was then aged 47, became very attached to 23-year-old Leon Trotsky, whom he never referred to by name, but only as 'youth' or 'our Benjamin'. He successfully lobbied the editors of