Molodetsky, Ippolit Osipovich

Born in the family of a small merchant. Baptized jew. He studied at the Slutsk gymnasium , but was expelled. He earned money as a home teacher and served as a clerk ^[1] .

He lived in Minsk , in Vilna , where in August 1879 he was baptized. The Governor-General of Vilensky reported to St. Petersburg: “Ippolit Mlodetsky prepared for the reception of holy baptism in the Vilnius spiritual fraternity, was baptized and soon went to Petersburg ... Then six months later, Mlodetsky appeared to the brotherhood secretary, as if traveling to Slutsk on the occasion of his father’s death, in extreme poverty, which was evident from his dress. From the sums of the fraternity, 10 rubles were granted him an allowance ” ^[2] .

He left for St. Petersburg, but in January 1880 he was expelled to Slutsk as having no right to live in the capitals. Illegally returned to Petersburg. He offered his services to Narodnaya Volya , but received no answer. He decided to commit a terrorist act, stopping at the murder of Count M. Loris-Melikov . On February 20, 1880, he tried to shoot M. Loris-Melikov on the street, but unsuccessfully. On February 21, 1880, the St. Petersburg Military District Court sentenced him to death by hanging ^{[3] [4]} .

The executive committee of the People’s Will, taking advantage of the opportunity, elevated Mlodetsky to the rank of revolutionary. However, he noted the private nature of the assassination attempt. The proclamation of the Executive Committee of Narodnaya Volya declared that this attempt was “one-man, both in design and in execution”, and it was agreed: “Molodetsky really turned to the EC with a proposal of his forces to some terrorist enterprise, but without waiting two or three days, committed his assassination attempt not only without allowance, but even without the knowledge of the IR. This circumstance, by the way, was reflected on the technical side of the enterprise: IK, no doubt, would have found more reliable means of executing Melikov if he had been sentenced to death ” ^[5] .

"... Today at three in the afternoon Loris was returning home when a badly dressed man, about 30 years old, waiting for him at the corner of Pochtamtskaya and B. Morskoy, jumping out of his ambush, shot him point-blank in the right side. Overcoat saved the count, a bullet slipped on her greatcoat, tearing it in three places, as well as the uniform. But, thank God, Loris remained unharmed. They immediately seized the criminal. He turned out to be a baptized Jew, but under police surveillance. Loris, when he felt the gun barrel, swung at the killer that , truly, and saved him. The count said: "I am a bullet n he doesn’t take, but this bastard was thinking of killing me ... ” ^[6] .

At the trial, Mlodetsky ranked himself among the people's volunteers: "I am a socialist, I fully share their beliefs, but I will not name my friends and acquaintances." Rising to the scaffold, Mlodetsky shouted into the crowd: “I am dying for you!” ^[7] .

Led. Prince Konstantin Konstantinovich , from a diary, February 26: “... Dostoevsky went to see the execution of Mlodetsky, I did not like it, I would be disgusted to witness such an inhuman matter; but he explained to me that he was occupied with everything that concerns a person, all the provisions of his life, joy and torment. Finally, maybe he wanted to see how they were taking the criminal to death and mentally relive his own impressions ... Mlodetsky looked around and seemed indifferent. Fedor Mikhailovich explains this by the fact that at such a moment a person tries to drive away the thought of death, he is mostly reminded of encouraging pictures, he is transferred to some kind of life garden full of spring and sun. And the closer to the end, the more obsessive and painful is the idea of ​​imminent death. The impending pain, near-death suffering is not terrible: the transition to another unknown image is terrible ... ” ^[8] .

The newspaper "Voice" , February 23, 1880: "... hundreds of benches, stools, drawers, barrels and stairs formed a kind of square around the army ... For places paid from 50 to. 10 rubles .; the places were even outbid ... The face of this man with a reddish beard and the same mustache was thin and yellow. It was distorted. Several times it seemed that a smile was distorting him ... His face was covered with terrible pallor and was sharply distinguished by its puffiness from under his black clothes; his brilliant eyes restlessly wandered in space. The thick black eyebrows that went down to the nose gave him a very gloomy and angry look, which was sometimes unpleasantly softened by a light mocking and squeezed smile of the right half of the ugly outlined mouth ... "

Newspaper Newspaper: “... Mlodetsky is a purely Jewish type of the most nondescript warehouse. Some claimed that he was smiling. We could not take for a smile the painfully crooked features. His face stopped twisting into a smile, which he had tried to make before. He was not his own ... "

“... Dostoevsky came. He says that the people were mocking and screaming at the execution of Mlodetsky. The big effect was that Mlodetsky kissed the cross. From all sides they began to say: “Kissed! The cross kissed! "..." ^[9] .

Alexander II: "... Mlodetsky was hanged at 11 o'clock on the Semenovsky parade ground - everything is in order ...". Tsesarevich Alexander: "... This is the case and energetically! .." ^[10] .

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