Pyotr Yakovlevich Shevyryov (russian: Пётр Я́ковлевич Шевырёв; 6.23(7.5).1863 – 5.8(20).1887) was a Russian

revolutionary A revolutionary is a person who either participates in, or advocates a revolution. The term ''revolutionary'' can also be used as an adjective, to refer to something that has a major, sudden impact on society or on some aspect of human endeavor. ...

, member of

Narodnaya Volya Narodnaya Volya ( rus, Наро́дная во́ля, p=nɐˈrodnəjə ˈvolʲə, t=People's Will) was a late 19th-century revolutionary political organization in the Russian Empire which conducted assassinations of government officials in an att ...

. In 1883, Shevyrev enrolled in the

University of Kharkiv The Kharkiv University or Karazin University ( uk, Каразінський університет), or officially V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University ( uk, Харківський національний університет імені ...

and later transferred to St.Petersburg University. In the winter of 1885—1886, he organized an

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club called ''"Student Union"'' (Союз землячеств, or Soyuz zemlyachestv). In the late 1886, Shevyrev and

Aleksandr Ulyanov Aleksandr Ilyich Ulyanov (russian: Алекса́ндр Ильи́ч Улья́нов; – ) was a Russian revolutionary and political activist. He was the elder brother of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union. Early life Ulyanov ...

created the "

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Faction" of Narodnaya Volya, which would be responsible for devising the attempted

assassination Assassination is the murder of a prominent or important person, such as a head of state, head of government, politician, world leader, member of a royal family or CEO. The murder of a celebrity, activist, or artist, though they may not have ...

of Alexander III on March 1, 1887. In February 1887, Shevyrev left for the

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due to his

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. Shevyrev was arrested in

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on March 7. On April 19, at St. Petersburg, he was sentenced to death by

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during the

Pervomartovtsi Pervomartovtsy (russian: Первома́ртовцы; a compound term literally meaning ''those of March 1'') were the Russian revolutionaries, members of ''Narodnaya Volya'', planners and executors of the assassination of Alexander II of ...

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. He was executed at the fortress of Shlisselburg some two weeks later. Rappaport, Helen. ''Conspirator: Lenin in Exile.'' London, Hutchinson, 2009, pp. xxi - xxiv.

References

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