Valerian Andreevich Ossinsky

Valerian Andreyevich Ossinsky ( Russian Валериан Андреевич Осинский ; born October 29, ^jul. / 10. November  1852 ^greg. In Taganrog , † May 14 ^jul. / 26. May  1879 ^greg. In Kiev , German and Valerian Ossinsky ) was a Russian terrorist .

Ossinski, son of a general in the Russian Army , studied at the Institute of Transportation in Saint Petersburg in 1871/1872 . After that he was employed by Zemstvo Organizations in Rostov-on-Don . In 1875 he joined the Russian revolutionary movement and became one of the new founders of the Zemlya i Volja ( Land and Freedom ) organization . From the end of 1877 he led their Southern Executive Committee and turned to the radical wing of the organization, from which the Association Narodnaya Volya (People's Will) emerged. Ossinski excelled through organizational work in Odessa , Kharkov and Kiev . Karl Oldenberg called him “one of the earliest and most ardent representatives” and the “real [n] apostle of terrorism” ( Karl Oldenberg : The Russian Nihilism from its Beginnings to the Present. 1888, p. 145) in the Tsarist Empire. In 1878 he organized and carried out attacks on the public prosecutor Kotljarewski in Kiev, the colonel Heuking (Geiking) and others. In January 1879, Ossinski was arrested in Kiev and sentenced to death by shooting by the Kiev Military District Court. Tsar Alexander II changed the sentence to "Death by hanging" .

Ossinski was popular among the revolutionary underground and sections of society. Lev Tolstoy counted him among the "highly moral, self-sacrificing, good people" ( Lev Tostoy : Foreword to WG Tschertkows article "About the Revolution" , 1904 (Russian in: Collected works in 91 volumes . Volume 36. Moscow, Leningrad 1936. P. 151).). Walerian Obolenski (1887–1938), Bolshevik and later high-ranking Soviet economic politician, took on the "party name" (N.) Ossinski in honor of Walerian Ossinski .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article Walerian Andrejewitsch Ossinski in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian) http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D085304~2a%3D~2b%3DWalerian%20Andrejewitsch%20Ossinski.