John Russell, 4th Earl Russell cause of world peace. John Russell was succeeded as Earl by his half-brother, the historian Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell. John Russell, 4th Earl Russell John Conrad Russell, 4th Earl Russell (16 November 1921 – 16 December 1987) was the eldest son of the philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell (the 3rd Earl) and his second wife, Dora Black. His middle name was a tribute to the writer Joseph Conrad, whom his father had long admired. He was the great-grandson of the 19th century British Whig Prime Minister Lord John Russell. He succeeded to the earldom on the death of his
Kant, Kyrgyzstan era, Kant and its surrounding area were home to a large number of ethnic Germans who had been forcibly relocated to Central Asia in 1941 from the Volga region when the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was abolished. Most left for Germany during the 1990s and after the demise of the Soviet Union when the factories where they had worked shut down. Several other nearby settlements, such as "Luxemburg" and Bergtal, still carry their German names, but retain only very small remnants of their Volga German and Russian Mennonite founders. The population of Kant, according to the Population and