Nikolai Pavlovich Schmidt (Russian: Николай Павлович Шмит; 22 December 1883 – 26 February 1907) was a

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

revolutionary aligned with the

Bolsheviks The Bolsheviks (russian: Большевики́, from большинство́ ''bol'shinstvó'', 'majority'),; derived from ''bol'shinstvó'' (большинство́), "majority", literally meaning "one of the majority". also known in English ...

. He was arrested in October 1905 during the

1905 Revolution The Russian Revolution of 1905,. also known as the First Russian Revolution,. occurred on 22 January 1905, and was a wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire. The mass unrest was directed again ...

. He apparently committed suicide in suspicious circumstances whilst in prison expecting imminent release. Others researchers claimed that he was intentionally killed. Before that he was tortured in order to obtain self-evidence against him on his role in

. Schmidt was the nephew of

Savva Morozov Savva Timofeyevich Morozov (russian: link=no, Са́вва Тимофе́евич Моро́зов, , Orekhovo-Zuevo, Bogorodsky Uyezd Moskovskaya Guberniya, Russian Empire – , Cannes, France) was a Russian textile magnate and philanthropist ...

. His father Pavel Aleksandrovich Schmidt married Vera Vikulovna Morozova, the heiress of a rich

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family. Both he and his uncle were sympathetic to the Bolsheviks and provided funds for their newspaper, ''

Novaya Zhizn ''Novaya Zhizn'' (, ''New Life'') was the first legal Bolshevik daily newspaper. It was founded by Alexander Bogdanov and its first editor was Nikolai Minsky. It was first published in October 1905 in Petersburg, under the guidance of Lenin. It w ...

''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schmidt, Nikolai Pavlovich 1883 births 1907 deaths Russian revolutionaries Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members Bolshevik finance 1907 suicides Suicides in Russia People who committed suicide in prison custody