Mikhail Yakovlevich Herzenstein (Russian: Михаил Яковлевич Герценште́йн; ,

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— ,

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) was a Russian-Jewish scientist and politician who converted to Christianity, elected for the

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to the First

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, representing the city of

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. He was assassinated before the end of his parliamentary mandate by the

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, a reactionary antisemitic terrorist group at his summer home in

in the

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