Osip Bilchansky (pseudonym 'Gorbachev') (Russian: Осип Бильчанский, пцевдоным Горбачев) (1858-14 July 1879) was a Russian terrorist hanged for using a gun to resist arrest.

Biography

Bilchansky was the son of a police officer, who worked as a locksmith. When aged about 20, he joined a terrorist group in

Zhytomyr Zhytomyr ( uk, Жито́мир, translit=Zhytomyr ; russian: Жито́мир, Zhitomir ; pl, Żytomierz ; yi, זשיטאָמיר, Zhitomir; german: Schytomyr ) is a city in the north of the western half of Ukraine. It is the Capital city, a ...

, in Ukraine, led by a student at the Technological Institute, named Basov. Arrested in 1879, he shot a police officer during an unsuccessful attempt to escape. He was tried with other revolutionaries at the

Kiev Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper, Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the List of European cities by populat ...

military court, accused of attempting to rob the post train between Zhytomyr and Kiev in December 1978, and of killing a youth named Taras Kurilov, who was suspected of being a police informer. Bilchansky was sentenced to death, and hanged on 14 July 1879.

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1858 births 1879 deaths Russian criminals People executed by the Russian Empire by hanging {{Russia-bio-stub