Nikolay Pavlovich Schedrin (''Николай Павлович Щедрин'' in

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) (1858 — 10 January 1919) was a Russian

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and

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Biography

Nikolay Schedrin graduated from a

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gymnasium in

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. In 1876, he joined

Zemlya i volya Land and Liberty (; also sometimes translated Land and Freedom) was a Russian clandestine revolutionary organization in the period 1861–1864, and was re-established as a political party in the period 1876–1879. It was a central organ of th ...

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. After its split in 1879, Schedrin became a member of the

Black Repartition Black Repartition (BR; ; also known as Black Partition) was a revolutionary organization in Russia in the early 1880s. Black Repartition was established in August-September 1879 after the split of Zemlya i volya (Land and Liberty) at the Voronez ...

. Together with

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, he organized the Workers' Union of Southern Russia in the spring of 1880 and composed its program and numerous leaflets. Schedrin was arrested in October 1880 and sentenced to death by the district military court in

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on 29 May 1881. His sentence was later exchanged for eternal

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. Schedrin was first sent to the

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, then Alekseyevsky

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in 1882, and later

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in 1884. He soon became mentally ill and was finally transferred to a

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in 1896, where he would die two years after the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Schedrin, Nikolay Pavlovich Narodniks 1858 births 1919 deaths Prisoners of Shlisselburg fortress Prisoners of the Peter and Paul Fortress