Dmitry Grigoriyevich Bogrov ( – ) () was the
assassin
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of Prime Minister
Pyotr Stolypin.
On Bogrow was sentenced to death by hanging. He was executed on in the Kiev fortress Lyssa Hora.
Stolypin's widow had campaigned in vain to spare the assassin's young life. The investigations into the background of the assassination extended over a year. Through the intervention of Nicholas II, further investigations were prohibited. According to
Egor Lazarev, Bogrov claimed to have committed the assassination in revenge for the
antisemitism of the Russian Empire which he personally endured. However, his true motives for the assassination remain disputed as he was both a member of the
Socialist Revolutionary Party and an informant for the
Okhrana.
[Figes, Orlando (1996). ''A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924''. London: Jonathan Cape. pp. 230. . .]
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1887 births
1911 deaths
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