Pyotr Filippovich Yakubovich (; – ) was a Russian

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, poet and member of

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(People's Will Party) during the 1880s.

Biography

Pyotr Yakubovich was born on in landed property Isaevo, Valdaysky Uyezd,

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. From the nobility. His father, Philip Tarasovich Yakubovich (1817-1883), a retired captain, served as an officia. He graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Petersburg University (1882). After graduating, he entered the Petersburg Department of Narodnaya Volya. He was an organizer of the "Young People's Will Party" as well as its leader and ideologist. From the age of 24, he spent many years of his life in prisons and ''

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''. He spent three years in the Peter-Paul Fortress for participation in political movements and was subjected to penal servitude in Siberia from 1887 to 1899. He served his sentence in the Kara katorga. In 1890 he was transferred to the Akatuy katorga. Since September 1895, he was at the settlement in

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. He published in 1895 — under the pseudonym L. Melshin — a series of essays life for the prisoners in

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: ''V Mire Otverzjennych'' (''In the World of the Outcasts''), and ''Pasynki zhizni'' (''Life's Stepchildren''). In 1899 he received permission to live in

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, and in 1903 - in , Sankt-Peterburgsky Uyezd,

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. According to an article on

Leon Trotsky Lev Davidovich Bronstein ( – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky,; ; also transliterated ''Lyev'', ''Trotski'', ''Trockij'' and ''Trotzky'' was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist. He was a key figure ...

by David North (referring to Yakubovich's poems) "His poems, which evoked the heroism and tragedy of the doomed struggle of the revolutionary terrorists against tsarism, made a deep moral impact upon the youth of the 1890s." For a list of some of his other works, see "The Lied and Art Song Texts Page" on him.
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References

External links

St Petersburg Encyclopaedia entry on Pyotr Yakubovich
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yakubovich, Pyotr 1860 births 1911 deaths People from Bologovsky District People from Valdaysky Uyezd Nobility from the Russian Empire Narodnaya Volya Revolutionaries from the Russian Empire Prisoners of the Peter and Paul Fortress Poets from the Russian Empire Burials at Volkovo Cemetery