Pyotr Yakovlevich Shevyryov (; June 23 uly 5 1863 – May 8 ay 20 1887) was a Russian

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, member of

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. In 1883, Shevyrev enrolled in the

University of Kharkiv The V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (), also known as Kharkiv National University or Karazin University, is a public university in Kharkiv, Ukraine. It was founded in 1804 through the efforts of Vasily Karazin, becoming the second old ...

and later transferred to

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. In the winter of 1885—1886, he organized an illegal club called ''"Student Union"'' (Союз землячеств, or Soyuz zemlyachestv). In the late 1886, Shevyrev and

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created the "

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Faction" of Narodnaya Volya, which would be responsible for devising the attempted

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of Alexander III on March 1, 1887. In February 1887, Shevyrev left for the

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due to his

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. Shevyrev was arrested in

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on March 7. On April 19, at St. Petersburg, he was sentenced to death by

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during the

Pervomartovtsi Pervomartovtsy (; a compound term literally meaning ''those of March 1'') were the Russian revolutionaries, members of ''Narodnaya Volya (organization), Narodnaya Volya'', planners and executors of Assassination of Alexander II of Russia, ...

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. He was executed at the fortress of Shlisselburg some two weeks later. Rappaport, Helen. ''Conspirator: Lenin in Exile.'' London, Hutchinson, 2009, pp. xxi - xxiv.

References

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