Trigoni, Mikhail Nikolaevich

Born in a wealthy noble family, Greek by birth, participant in the Patriotic War of 1812 , Major General Nikolai Ivanovich Trigoni (1796-1890) and daughter of the Admiral of the Russian Navy M.N. Stanyukovich Olga Mikhailovna Stanyukovich (1826-1902) ^[1] .

He studied at the Simferopol gymnasium, but because of a conflict with the teacher, he was forced to go to the Kerch men's gymnasium, in which he studied the last year before graduation. In Kerch, he met and made friends with A. I. Zhelyabov , who involved Trigoni in revolutionary activity.

After successfully graduating from high school, he entered the law faculty of Novorossiysk University . After graduating from the university in 1875, he was engaged in revolutionary activities in Odessa.

In 1879 he left for St. Petersburg and, with the participation of A. I. Zhelyabov and N. N. Kolodkevich, joined the Narodnaya Volya party and was elected a member of its Executive Committee.

In the fall of 1880, by decision of the leadership of "Narodnaya Volya", he moved to Odessa. He got a job as a sworn attorney at the Odessa District Court and was engaged in professional activities.

In Odessa, he organized a local group of members of the “Narodnaya Volya” from among familiar representatives of the intelligentsia and advanced workers. Anti-government propaganda was carried out among seasonal workers as masons and carpenters. There were connections with teachers of rural schools of the Kherson province. Part of the relations with the members of the circles was transferred by N. N. Kolodkevich, who had previously worked in Odessa. He also transferred contacts with members of military circles, in particular with M. Yu. Ashenbrenner .

In early January 1881 he was called to Petersburg to discuss issues raised by the Executive Committee; of these, the main one was the question of insurrection , that is, of an armed struggle against the autocracy.

February 27, 1881 in the furnished rooms of apartment No. 12 on Nevsky Prospekt in Building 66, where Trigoni stayed, he was arrested along with A. I. Zhelyabov who came to him. The arrest became possible after the frank testimony of the convict I.F. Okladsky , who knew M.N. Trigoni and later identified him during the investigation.

Brought to trial over 20 Narodnaya Volya ( process of 20 ). Held in the Special Presence of the Governing Senate February 9 - 15, 1882. He was accused of participating in a revolutionary organization, as well as personal participation in preparing for the terrorist attack against Emperor Alexander II - a dig under Malaya Sadovaya Street in St. Petersburg and anti-government propaganda among Odessa workers (based on the testimony of V.A. Merkulov ).

Attorney V.D. Spasovich , who defended M.N. Trigoni at the trial, managed to drop the charge of participating in the preparation of a terrorist act on Malaya Sadovaya in St. Petersburg, and thereby mitigate the sentence of the court for Trigoni. At the trial, Trigoni admitted his membership in the party "Narodnaya Volya", solidarity with the program of the Executive Committee and revolutionary activity among the workers of Odessa. The court determined the punishment of deprivation of all rights and 20 years of hard labor in mines.

After the trial, he was imprisoned in the Trubetskoy bastion , then in the Alekseevsky ravelin , where he spent more than two years.

In August 1884, they transferred from the Peter and Paul Fortress to the Shlisselburg Fortress , remained in solitary confinement until February 1902, then was exiled to Sakhalin Island . In the link he was engaged in ethnography . During the Russo-Japanese War in July 1905, Japanese troops captured the administrative center of Sakhalin - the post of Alexander and M. N. Trigoni was released from exile by the Japanese military administration. On ships through Japan and China, he returned to the Russian Empire. He lived in the Crimea since 1906.

Died July 5, 1917 from a stroke . He was buried in the city cemetery (Marble Street). The grave has been preserved, the tombstone was restored in 1983.

• In 1906-1908 house in the Belbek valley, near the Belbek railway station (now Verkhne-Sadovaya).
• Since 1908, the house in Balaklava, where he lived until his death (was on the site of apartment building No. 11 on the street on May 9, was demolished in 1983).

• Trigoni M.N. “My arrest in 1881” (The Former, 1906, No. 3)

A mountain on the island of Sakhalin ( Dolinsky district of the Sakhalin region ) is named after Trigoni.

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