Alexei Dmitrievich Pokotilov (russian: Алексей Дмитриевич Покотилов; 1879–1904) was an Eser, terrorist, member of the Combat Organization of the

Socialist Revolutionary Party The Socialist Revolutionary Party, or the Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries (the SRs, , or Esers, russian: эсеры, translit=esery, label=none; russian: Партия социалистов-революционеров, ), was a major politi ...

, participants in the assassination of The Minister of Internal Affairs

Vyacheslav von Plehve Vyacheslav Konstantinovich von Plehve ( rus, Вячесла́в (Wenzel (Славик)) из Плевны Константи́нович фон Пле́ве, p=vʲɪtɕɪˈslaf fɐn ˈplʲevʲɪ; – ) served as a director of Imperial Russ ...

.Покотилов Алексей Дмитриевич. ХРОНОС.
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Biography

Alexei Pokotilov belonged to a

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. His father was a major general. He studied at the

Kyiv University Kyiv University or Shevchenko University or officially the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv ( uk, Київський національний університет імені Тараса Шевченка), colloquially known as KNU ...

. In 1901, he was deported under police supervision for 2 years due to participation in a demonstration near the Kazan Cathedral in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

. Pokotilov lived in

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, from where he managed to escape. On the night of April 1, 1904, he died in an explosion at the

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, Saint Petersburg.

References

Socialist Revolutionary Party politicians 1879 births 1904 deaths {{Russia-noble-stub