Tsitsianov, Alexander Konstantinovich

Born in a wealthy family of the old Georgian princely family of Tsitsianovs (Tsitsishvili).
In 1860 he entered the Tiflis Classical Gymnasium, expelled from the 7th grade in 1870 due to poor performance.

In 1870, he joined M. Chikoidze and I. Dzhabadari in the Tiflis circle of self-education. In 1873 he went abroad and lived in Zurich , Geneva , Paris . He was a member of a foreign "Caucasian" circle (M. Chikoidze, I. Dzhabadari and others), who became close to the Frichey Russian women’s circle of Russian students at the University of Zurich .

In February 1875 he went to Tiflis to organize a “Caucasian community” and to sell his real estate (worth about 200,000 rubles) and receive money in order to transfer it to a revolutionary fund. After the first failure of the organization, on April 4, 1875, he was invited by the revolutionary organization to Moscow and, together with V. Lyubatovich and N. Tsvilenev, became one of the leaders of the organization.

He lived in Moscow in the same apartment with V. Lyubatovich under the name of a nobleman Zedgenidze. In the summer of 1875 he took part in organizing an attempt to escape N. A. Morozov from a Moscow prison. Under the name "Tsitsianov" a fictitious marriage of Is. Kikodze with A. Khorzhevskaya in order to deliver funds for revolutionary purposes.

Arrested in Moscow on August 10, 1875 at the apartment of Ant. Gamkrelidze . When arrested, he offered armed resistance - the first in the revolutionary movement. During a search of the apartment, illegal literature, encrypted letters, notes, etc. were discovered.

He was first detained in the Suschevsky part in Moscow, then transported to Petersburg , from September 26, 1876 to February 15, 1877, was kept in the Peter and Paul Fortress , and then transferred to the Pretrial Detention House . Attracted to inquiry in the case of anti-government propaganda ( 50 trial ); upon inquiry, it became clear that they were involved in a secret revolutionary circle in the Caucasus (Is. Kikodze, M. Kipiani, and others).

He was put on trial on November 30, 1876 ​​by the Special Presence of the Governing Senate on charges of organizing an unlawful community, participating in it, distributing criminal compositions and attempting to arrest the assassination of ensign Lovyagin, who conducted a search ( 50 trial ).

He sued from February 21 to March 14, 1877 and was found guilty. Sentenced March 14, 1877 to deprivation of all rights and to hard labor in fortresses for 10 years. Upon examination of the cassation appeal by the Senate on May 7, 1877, he was found guilty of joining an illegal community, attempted distribution of malicious works and attempted murder, as a result of which the term of hard labor was reduced to 8 years and hard labor in fortresses was replaced by the same in factories .

By the Highest Commandment, on August 14, 1877, he was stripped of all rights. He was detained in the House of Pretrial Detention and was put in a punishment cell for participation in unrest ( July 13, 1877) in unrest ( “Bogolyubovskaya Story” ). Sent to the New Belgorod convict prison, where in August 1878 he urged prisoners to riot. From the central October 13, 1880 sent to the Carian penal servitude. He was held in Mtsensky transit prison, in the summer of 1881 - in the Krasnoyarsk prison, on February 19, 1882 he arrived in Kara.

After the term of hard labor ended, by order of the Governor-General of September 13, 1883, he was released from hard labor and sent to the Irkutsk province for settlement.

As a result of "mediocre behavior" in relation to him, the manifesto was refused on May 15, 1883 . ^[one]
Settled in Kirensk ( Irkutsk province ).

Ill with a mental illness. He died in the Kirensky hospital on July 13, 1885 .

• Tsitsianov Alexander Konstantinovich // Figures of the revolutionary movement in Russia : in 5 volumes / ed. F. Ya. Kona et al. - M .: All-Union Society of Political Prisoners and Exiled Settlers , 1927-1934.