Vladimir Karpovich Debogory-Mokrievich (May 12 ( 24 ), 1848 , Chernihiv - November 2, 1926 , Chirpan , Bulgaria ) - a well-known Ukrainian revolutionary populist, memoirist, publicist.
| Vladimir Karpovich Debogory-Mokrievich | |
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 V.K.Debogory-Mokrievich. Photo 1879 From the sob. Museum "Corruption and Link" | |
| Date of Birth | May 12, 1848 |
| Place of Birth | Chernihiv , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | November 2, 1926 (78 years old) |
| Place of death | Chirpan , Bulgaria |
| Citizenship |  Russian Empire  Bulgaria |
| Occupation | populist revolutionary, memoirist, publicist |
| Education | Faculty of Medicine, Kiev University |
| Religion | Orthodoxy |
| Main ideas | Populism |
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Biography
The son of Podolsk landowner. The younger brother of Ivan Debogory-Mokrievich . He spent his childhood in the estate of his grandfather in the village of Luka-Barskaya, Litinsky district, Podolsk province (now the village of Barsky district, Vinnitsa region ).
He studied in 1866-1871. at the physics and mathematics, then at the medical faculties of Kiev University , after which, passionate about socialist ideas, he dreams of creating agricultural communes among peasants and for this purpose he is engaged in pedagogical activities in Mogilev.
- 1871 - together with his brother Ivan, Sergei Kovalyk , Grigory Mastet , Nikolai Sudzilovsky and other like-minded people, he was among the organizers of the so-called “American circle”, which planned to establish an agricultural community of emigrants across the ocean.
- 1873 - travels to Switzerland, where he meets with Mikhail Bakunin , joined the "rebellious" wing of populist anarchism.
- 1874 - upon returning to his homeland, he settles in the Kiev commune with Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaya , Nikolai Sudzilovsky and others. " Goes to the people ", under the guise of a dyer, but without success. Soon repression began; Debogory-Mokrievich flees abroad, but returned.
- 1875 - organizes a circle with the aim of organizing an armed peasant uprising. He takes part in the preparation of the peasant uprising in Chigirinsky district with the help of false royal letters.
- 1876 - among those who settled in the villages to prepare a plot of rebellion. Subsequently, he participated in organizing the escape of the Narodniks Yakov Stefanovich , Lev Deutsch and Ivan Bokhanovsky [1] from prison.
- At the end of the 70s, Debogory-Mokrievich was in the "center of the southern circle of terrorists," although he was not a supporter of terror .
- February 11, 1879 - was arrested in Kiev and sentenced by a military court to 14 years of hard labor, but near Irkutsk he exchanges documents with a criminal exiled settler and flees abroad.
- 1881 - returns to Moscow, from where he flees to Switzerland.
- 1894 - “Memoirs” of Debogoriy-Mokriyevich go abroad, very informative and fascinatingly written. Dmitry Svyatopolk-Mirsky wrote in his History of Russian Literature about his Memoirs: “They are not devoid of literary merits: the story goes easily, naturally and is full of humor - the almost inevitable merit of southern Russians” [2] .
- 1899 - together with Vladimir Burtsev in Geneva, publishes the constitutional body “Free Russia”. In further work, he takes the point of view of liberals. Recognized the conquest of the political system, in which there should be decentralization and zemstvos - the basis of this system. He died in exile in Bulgaria.