Nikolai Alekseyevich Sablin (russian: Никола́й Алексе́евич Са́блин), was the son of a petty landowner, was born in 1849 or 1850 (sources vary). While at
Moscow University
M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...
he became involved in revolutionary politics as a member of the
Narodnaya Volya or People's Will.
Sablin went to Zurich in 1874 but returned to Russia the following year. He was arrested in March, 1875, but was not tried until January, 1878. He was found guilty but was soon released because of the long time he had been awaiting trial.
A member of
People's Will, Sabin joined the plot to kill
Alexander II.
Others involved included
Sophia Perovskaya
Sophia Lvovna Perovskaya (russian: Со́фья Льво́вна Перо́вская; – ) was a Russian Empire revolutionary and a member of the revolutionary organization ''Narodnaya Volya''. She helped orchestrate the assassination of ...
,
Andrei Zhelyabov
Andrei Ivanovich Zhelyabov (russian: Желябов, Андрей Иванович; – ) was a Russian Empire revolutionary and member of the Executive Committee of Narodnaya Volya.
After graduating from a gymnasium in Kerch in 1869, Zhelyab ...
,
Hesya Helfman
Hesya Mirovna (Meerovna) Helfman (, ) 1855, Mazyr — 1 ( N.S. 13) February 1882, Saint Petersburg), was a Russian revolutionary member of ''Narodnaya Volya'', who was implicated in the assassination of Tsar Alexander II.
Biography Early life
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,
Ignaty Grinevitsky,
Nikolai Kibalchich
Nikolai Ivanovich Kibalchich (russian: Николай Иванович Кибальчич, uk, Микола Іванович Кибальчич, sr, Никола Кибалчић, ''Mykola Ivanovych Kybalchych''; 19 October 1853 – April 3, 188 ...
,
Nikolai Rysakov, and
Timofei Mikhailov
Timofey Mikhailovich Mikhailov (russian: Тимофе́й Михайлович Мих́айлов; — 15 April 1881) was a member of the Russian revolutionary organization Narodnaya Volya. He was designated a bomb-thrower in the assassination of ...
.
On 15 March 1881, two days after Alexander II was
assassinated
Assassination is the murder of a prominent or important person, such as a head of state, head of government, politician, world leader, member of a royal family or CEO. The murder of a celebrity, activist, or artist, though they may not have ...
, police raided the conspiratorial flat, where Sablin and Hesya Helfman were living as an unsuspicious apparent married couple.
Sablin killed himself with a revolver shot in the head before he could be arrested.
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Nikolai Sablin
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Narodnaya Volya
19th-century births
1881 deaths
Russian revolutionaries
Suicides by firearm in Russia
1880s suicides