Lev Filippovich Mirsky [1] ( 1859 - 1920 ) - a Russian terrorist [2] , who attempted to assassinate the chief of the Separate Gendarmes Corps General A. R. Drenteln and issued the prison administration with a plan to escape S. G. Nechaev from the Alekseevsky ravelin of the Peter and Paul Fortress .
| Leo Filippovich Mirsky | |
|---|---|
| Aliases | Lvov, Pletnev Alexander Nikolaevich |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Rubanov-Most Village, Uman Uyezd, Kiev Province , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | or |
| Place of death | |
| Citizenship | |
| Occupation | terrorist |
| Education | gymnasium |
| Religion | Catholic |
| The consignment | non-partisan |
Biography
Lev Filippovich Mirsky was born in 1859 in the village of Rubanov-Most of the Uman district of the Kiev province in a family of a Polish nobleman. In 1877 he graduated from high school, in St. Petersburg he entered the Medical and Surgical Academy .
In the fall of 1877, he met with members of the Earth and Freedom group.
At the end of 1877, in the village of Rubanov-Most, he distributed books of "criminal content" to the peasants. On March 14, 1878, political police raided the Mirsky’s apartment in St. Petersburg. At the same time, Mirsky was under investigation by the Judicial Investigator of the Starokievsky district of Kiev in two cases:
- about insulting him with a military guard and
- about insulting the caretaker of the Kiev Prison Castle.
Police established surveillance of Mirsky. In the spring of 1878, Mirsky was arrested . First, he was imprisoned in the Pretrial Detention House in St. Petersburg, then transferred to Kiev, and in the fall of 1878 he was imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress. January 10, 1879 Mirsky was released on bail by lawyer E.I. Utin .
Chief of gendarmes A.R. Drenteln forbade Mirsky to continue his education at the Medical Academy. In early February 1879, Mirsky met with one of the members of the Executive Committee of the People’s Will, A. D. Mikhailov . Mirsky proposed a plan to kill the chief of the gendarmes.
The preparation of the attempt was carried out by M. A. Mikhailov and N. A. Morozov . They studied the routes of Drenteln's movement around the city. Mirsky for the attempt assassinated an expensive horse. On March 13, 1879, at about one in the afternoon, Mirsky rode on a horse to the carriage in which Drenteln was sitting and fired several pistol shots. During the chase, Mirsky’s horse fell. Mirsky drove off in a cab and was later identified by his dear horse.
Drenteln was not injured, both bullets flew past, and one of them was later found between the glass and the wall of the carriage door, inside.
Until the end of March 1879, Mirsky was hiding in St. Petersburg, then he lived in Valdai County on a forged passport, near Rostov-on-Don and in Taganrog . On July 6, he was arrested in Taganrog under the name of the nobleman Pletnev. On November 17, a St. Petersburg court sentenced Mirsky to death . On November 19, the interim governor-general I.V. Gurko commuted the sentence: deprive all rights of the state (including the nobility) and send him to indefinite hard labor.
Mirsky's bride Elena Andreevna Kestelman in 1887 was sent for three years to the Semipalatinsk region.
November 28, 1879 Mirsky was taken to the Alekseevsky ravelin of the Peter and Paul Fortress . At the same time, S. G. Nechaev was detained in the same place. On November 16, 1881, Mirsky, by a note, informed the commandant of the fortress I. S. Ganetsky about Nechaev’s plans to escape.
June 26, 1883 by order of V.K. Pleve Mirsky was transferred to the Trubetskoy bastion . July 15, transferred to the House of Pretrial Detention . July 26, 1883 included in the party of Volunteers, sent to the Carian penal servitude . In September 1890, he was transferred to the freestyle team for exemplary behavior. In 1894 they were allowed to go to a settlement in Selenginsk . Later he moved to Verkhneudinsk .
During the 1905 revolution in Verkhneudinsk, Mirsky, together with I. A. Shinkman and I. K. Okuntsov, published the newspaper Verkhneudinsky Listok. In the first half of January 1906, they were arrested along with the owner of the newspaper Reifovich.
For more than a month, Mirsky and other arrested persons were taken in the "death carriage" of the Rennenkampf train as a hostage. The prisoners of the car were present at the executions in Verkhneudinsk and Khilka [3] .
On February 26, 1906 (according to the old style) in Chita, the Rennenkampf military court sentenced him to death with the following wording: “Belonging to the militant revolutionary party, he, by printing articles, called on the population to overthrow the reigning emperor from the throne and to forcibly encroach on change the existing political system in Russia. He collaborated in the revolutionary newspaper Verkhneudinsky List, organized anti-government demonstrations and made public speeches at rallies, urging him to forcibly deprive the monarch of his supreme authority ” [4] . The sentence was later commuted to hard labor without a term. He served his sentence in Akatuya . Having left the settlement, he returned to Verkhneudinsk.
He died in Verkhneudinsk in 1919 or 1920.
Notes
- ↑ In some sources - Leon Fedorovich Mirsky.
- ↑ Did not belong to any of the revolutionary parties of the Russian Empire.
- ↑ Eve. Okuntsov A letter sentenced to death (from the newspaper Pravo for 1906) \\ Life of Buryatia. No. 7-No. 8 1925, pp. 72-73
- ↑ The revolutionary movement of 1905 in Buryatia // Life of Buryatia. Verkhneudinsk. No. 7-8 July-August 1925, p. 17 -39.
Literature
Lurie F. M. Nechaev: Creator of destruction. - M.: Mol. Guard, 2001. - (Life Notice. People: Ser. Biogr .; Issue 802). ISBN 5-235-02452-4