Pyotr Filippovich Yakubovich (russian: Пётр Филиппович Якубович; November 3, 1860 – March 30, 1911) 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.
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, poet and 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 ...
(People's Will Party) during the 1880s. He graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of
Petersburg University
Saint Petersburg State University (SPBU; russian: Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет) is a public research university in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Founded in 1724 by a decree of Peter the ...
(1882). After graduating, he entered the Petersburg Department of Narodnaya Volya. He was an organizer of the "Young People's Will Party" as well as its leader and ideologist.
From the age of 24, he spent many years of his life in prisons and ''
katorga
Katorga ( rus, ка́торга, p=ˈkatərɡə; from medieval and modern Greek: ''katergon, κάτεργον'', "galley") was a system of penal labor in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union (see Katorga labor in the Soviet Union). Prisoner ...
''. He spent three years in the
Peter-Paul Fortress for participation in political movements and was subjected to penal servitude in Siberia from 1887 to 1899.
He published in 1895 — under the pseudonym L. Melshin — a series of essays life for the prisoners in
Siberia
Siberia ( ; rus, Сибирь, r=Sibir', p=sʲɪˈbʲirʲ, a=Ru-Сибирь.ogg) is an extensive geographical region, constituting all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has been a part of ...
: ''V Mire Otverzjennych'' (''In the World of the Outcasts''), and ''Pasynki zhizni'' (''Life's Stepchildren'').
According to an article on
Leon Trotsky
Lev Davidovich Bronstein. ( – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky; uk, link= no, Лев Давидович Троцький; also transliterated ''Lyev'', ''Trotski'', ''Trotskij'', ''Trockij'' and ''Trotzky''. (), was a Russian ...
by
David North (referring to Yakubovich's poems) "His poems, which evoked the heroism and tragedy of the doomed struggle of the revolutionary terrorists against tsarism, made a deep moral impact upon the youth of the 1890s."
For a list of some of his other works, see "The Lied and Art Song Texts Page" on him.
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References
External links
St Petersburg Encyclopaedia entry on Pyotr Yakubovich
1860 births
1911 deaths
People from Bologovsky District
People from Valdaysky Uyezd
Russian nobility
Narodnaya Volya
Russian revolutionaries
Prisoners of the Peter and Paul Fortress
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