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. ...

, 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 (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). Pris ...

''. He spent three years in the

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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 ...

: ''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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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 {{Russia-poet-stub