Martin Antonenko
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Acquitted For An Assassination Attempt On The Military Governor!
On February 5, 1878 (our calendar!), the Russian Marxist student Wera Iwanowna Sassulitsch...
...for the mistreatment of a political prisoner on the military governor of Saint Petersburg, General Fjodor Fjodorovich Trepow...
...and severely injures him.
The reason:
In July 1877 a political prisoner, Jemeljan Bogoljubow (the picture shows him in later years)…
... had refused to remove his head covering in the presence of the general and had been flogged cruelly on his orders as punishment.
General Trepow...
...notorious as a butcher in the Russian Empire anyway due to his role in the suppression of the Polish rebellions in 1830 and 1863, has to retire due to his serious injuries - he is no longer able to serve!
Wera Sassulitsch is put on trial for shooting the general and there is a sensational public trial...:
Then the sensation! Trepow is hated by large sections of the population in Russia and the jury is clearly fond of Ssassulitsch. In any case, they acquitted Zasulich on April 11, 1878!
Ssassulitsch then flees immediately to Switzerland before she can be imprisoned again!
She becomes a celebrity and a heroine of revolutionaries and radical sections of Russian society. Despite this event, she remains an opponent of the campaign of terror that will eventually lead to the assassination of Alexander II in 1881.
Ssassulitsch, who is in lively correspondence with international pioneers of the revolution - for example with Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin and Lev Trotsky - is still experiencing the revolution of the Bolsheviks in Russia - albeit as their implacable opponent, because she abhors the terror of the Lenin party.
However, she is among those who, in exile in Leipzig, founded the first boshevik underground newspaper "Iskra" (= "The Spark") together with Lenin, and she writes regularly for "Iskra".
The next picture shows Ssassulitsch in 1918...:
In 1919 Wera Ssassulitsch died in Saint Petersburg.
On February 5, 1878 (our calendar!), the Russian Marxist student Wera Iwanowna Sassulitsch...
...for the mistreatment of a political prisoner on the military governor of Saint Petersburg, General Fjodor Fjodorovich Trepow...
...and severely injures him.
The reason:
In July 1877 a political prisoner, Jemeljan Bogoljubow (the picture shows him in later years)…
... had refused to remove his head covering in the presence of the general and had been flogged cruelly on his orders as punishment.
General Trepow...
...notorious as a butcher in the Russian Empire anyway due to his role in the suppression of the Polish rebellions in 1830 and 1863, has to retire due to his serious injuries - he is no longer able to serve!
Wera Sassulitsch is put on trial for shooting the general and there is a sensational public trial...:
Then the sensation! Trepow is hated by large sections of the population in Russia and the jury is clearly fond of Ssassulitsch. In any case, they acquitted Zasulich on April 11, 1878!
Ssassulitsch then flees immediately to Switzerland before she can be imprisoned again!
She becomes a celebrity and a heroine of revolutionaries and radical sections of Russian society. Despite this event, she remains an opponent of the campaign of terror that will eventually lead to the assassination of Alexander II in 1881.
Ssassulitsch, who is in lively correspondence with international pioneers of the revolution - for example with Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin and Lev Trotsky - is still experiencing the revolution of the Bolsheviks in Russia - albeit as their implacable opponent, because she abhors the terror of the Lenin party.
However, she is among those who, in exile in Leipzig, founded the first boshevik underground newspaper "Iskra" (= "The Spark") together with Lenin, and she writes regularly for "Iskra".
The next picture shows Ssassulitsch in 1918...:
In 1919 Wera Ssassulitsch died in Saint Petersburg.
