Alexey Fyodorovich Aladyin was born on March 15, 1873, in Novikovka, Stavropol District of Samara Province. He was a member of the First State Duma from the Simbirsk Province. His father, a prosperous peasant, soon went bankrupt, and the family moved to Simbirsk, where his father worked as a land surveyor. Alexey studied at a folk school and the Simbirsk gymnasium but was expelled from the 8th grade for participating in the revolutionary movement. After passing external exams, he entered Kazan University, where he initially studied medicine and then natural sciences. In 1892 and 1894, he unsuccessfully agitated among the peasants of Sviyazhsky District, and in 1895 and 1896, he conducted propaganda among the workers of the Altufyevskaya factory. On February 20, 1896, he was arrested and was in custody until October 5 of the same year, after which he was released on bail and sent to live in Simbirsk. In March 1897, he fled abroad, and the case against him was suspended. Living in Belgium, France, and the UK, he earned a living through odd jobs, worked as an electrician and translator, and taught Russian in London. In December 1905, he returned to Russia and participated in strikes and rallies in St. Petersburg, being a member of the combat detachment. In early 1906, Aladyin went to Simbirsk, where he was elected a deputy to the First State Duma from the peasant curia. In the Duma, he became one of the initiators and organizers of the 'Labor Group' and was a well-known speaker. His main idea was that only the State Duma could curb the revolutionary sentiments of the people. In his speeches, he often supported the Constitutional Democratic Party. On July 3, 1906, he was elected to the delegation for the inter-parliamentary congress in London, but soon the Duma was dissolved, and he remained abroad. In 1907, he was elected as a representative from the peasants to elect electors to the State Duma in one of the volosts of Simbirsk Province, but his election was annulled by the Senate since he was not a peasant householder. That same year, he visited the USA, where he lectured about Russia and urged the American government not to lend money to Russia until the repressions ceased. He worked as a journalist for British newspapers. With the onset of World War I, he approached the Russian embassy in London requesting to return home but was denied. He then enlisted in the British Army, where he became a lieutenant. In July 1917, he returned to St. Petersburg and supported General L.G. Kornilov, after which he was arrested and imprisoned in Bykhov prison but was released after the October Revolution. During the Civil War, he joined the White movement and served in the Don Army with the rank of staff captain. In 1920, he established contacts with the British mission in Southern Russia, receiving troops and cargo from the UK in Ekaterinodar and Novorossiysk and was involved in the evacuation of troops from Crimea. He later emigrated to Europe. Alexey Aladyin died on July 30, 1927, in St. Thomas' Hospital in London and was buried in Brookwood Cemetery.