Vasily Apollonovich (Polievktovich) Merkulov ( 1860 , Odessa - 1910 ) - a carpenter worker, a Russian revolutionary, a member of the " Narodnaya Volya " party, who agreed to cooperate with the investigation and give truthful testimony on the "process of 20" .
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Biography
Soldier's son from Odessa. I didn’t get an education. From the age of 9 he began to study the craft of a carpenter. He worked in various carpentry workshops. [one]
He got close to the Narodniks, joined the circle of E.O. Zaslavsky , then - into the South Russian Union of Workers .
In 1878, he met in Odessa with Ivan Ivichevich [2] , through him he met with A. I. Zhelyabov and entered the circle of people engaged in revolutionary activities. Since 1879 - member of the party "Narodnaya Volya".
Fulfilled the instructions of the party
- the organization and equipping of a railway booth for watchmen at 14 versts from Odessa for the purpose of assassinating the Tsar’s train of Alexander II ( October 1879 );
- digging under the pavement from the house on the street. Pushkinskaya 47 in Odessa for the installation of a dynamite charge with the aim of exploding the tsar’s crew ( April 1880 );
- laying mines at the Stone Bridge in St. Petersburg ( summer 1880 );
- digging on the street Malaya Sadovaya in St. Petersburg ( February 1881 ).
Arrested on February 27, 1881 .
April 12, 1881 agreed to cooperate with the investigation and gave truthful testimonies.
He participated in the process of 20 people's volunteers held from February 9 to February 15, 1882 in the Special Presence of the Governing Senate.
Understanding that at the trial the Volunteers could deal with him, on January 26, 1882, he wrote a petition to the court asking that during breaks he should not be put in the same room with other defendants.
On the last day of the trial, February 15 , before raising questions about guilt, when the defendants were brought into the courtroom, one of the defendants Teterka M.V. hit Merkulov in the face. Merkulov burst into tears, smearing tears and blood across his face, and the Teterka, at the direction of the first- ever Deyer P.A. , was immediately escorted by the convoy from the hall.
Sentenced to indefinite hard labor.
On July 31, 1883, the Police Department raised the question of replacing him with a reference to the Caucasus.
The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Empire supported this petition, arguing:
- testimony
- court behavior
- identification of A.V. Yakimova , for which he was taken to Kiev,
- his testimony in Odessa.
On August 26, 1883, the Police Department announced that the application was granted.
On June 22, 1895, a complete pardon was granted.
Notes
- ↑ Process of Twenty People’s Volunteers
- ↑ Ivichevich Ivan Nikolaevich (1859-1899), terrorist, member of the circle of V. A. Osinsky in Kiev. In the revolutionary movement in Odessa since 1874. In 1877 he worked in Rostov-on-Don as a locksmith and took part in the circle of railway workers. In 1878, he participated in the murder of the detective police agent A. G. Nikonov, after which he left for Kiev, and also participated in the assassination of the Kiev prosecutor M. M. Kotlyarevsky. On February 11, 1879, in Kiev, together with others, he put up armed resistance and was mortally wounded. Surviving revolutionaries took place in the case of the Kiev Rebels on April 30 - May 4, 1879 at the Kiev Military District Court.