Pyotr Vladimirovich Karpovich

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Pyotr Wladimirowitsch Karpowitsch ( Russian Пётр Владимирович Карпович ; * 3 October July / 15 October  1874 greg. In Gomel ; † 31 March July / 13 April  1917 greg. On the North Sea ) was a Russian social revolutionary who during the The reign of Nicholas II murdered the Russian minister of education, Bogolepov .

The beginnings

After attending grammar schools in Gomel and Sluzk , Pyotr Karpowitsch studied at the University of Moscow from 1895-1896 and from 1898 at the University of Dorpat . He was expelled from the Estonian university in 1899 after participating in a student survey. During his student days, Karpovich propagated the revolution especially in his birthplace and in Nesvish . Especially in Gomel joined the RSDLP -Parteiarbeiter illegally as a distributor of Marxist literature produced. Pursued by the police, he fled to Germany in 1899 and, supported by the Russian Social Revolutionaries who had emigrated there, worked on his training as a terrorist . The last trigger for Karpovich's return to Russia with terrorist intent in the late winter of 1901 was a student demonstration in 1900 at the University of Kiev . 183 Kiev students were drafted as recruits as punishment. Karpovich arrived in Saint Petersburg in early February .

The assassination

14 jul. / February 27,  1901 greg. Karpovich used an audience in Bogolepov's Saint Petersburg office. Karpovich shot the minister. Hit in the neck, Bogolepov died of sepsis 16 days later in hospital .

Karpovich had made no attempt to escape and was arrested on the spot. In court on March 17, 1901 in Saint Petersburg, he showed no remorse. Sentenced to twenty years of forced labor, he first came to Schluisselburg and from 1906 to Nertschinsk / Transbaikalia region in the Katorga Akatui. Thanks to an amnesty, Karpowitsch was released from Katorga in 1907 for the purpose of forced resettlement. He immediately used the latter to escape.

Death abroad

In Western Europe, Karpovich joined the Social Revolutionaries' fighting organization . Nikolaus II survived their assassination attempt. In 1909, according to police reports, Karpovich was active under Boris Savinkov . After Yevno Asef's betrayal, Karpovich withdrew from the fighting organization and went to England . In London he made friends with Iwan Maiski and worked as a masseur in a bathhouse.

On the occasion of the February Revolution in 1917 , Karpovich went home. But his ship, the British Zara , was torpedoed on the journey from London to Trondheim on April 13, 1917 by the German submarine SM U 30 under the command of Lieutenant Franz Grünert and sank in the North Sea between the Shetlands and the mountains .

Web links

Commons : Pjotr ​​Vladimirovich Karpovich  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Entry at dic.academic.ru (Russian)
  • Entry at gomelstreet.info (Russian)
  • Entry at slovar.cc/enc (Russian)
  • Entry at socialist-revolutionist.ru (Russian)
  • Entry at will-remember.ru (Russian)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russian Белорусская губерния
  2. ↑ Russian Акатуйская каторжная тюрьма
  3. ↑ Russian fighting organization of the Social Revolutionaries
  4. ↑ engl. Zara at uboat.net, see also engl. Zara at wrecksite.eu
  5. ↑ engl. Franz Grünert at uboat.net
personal data
SURNAME Karpovich, Pyotr Vladimirovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Карпович, Пётр Владимирович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian social revolutionary and assassin
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Gomel
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1917
Place of death North Sea