Left SR sailor who killed the German field marshal Eichhorn with a bomb in Kiev in 1918 and was hanged
A member of the Left SR combat organisation who worked against the German occupation of Ukraine, he was convicted by a German military court and hanged after the 1918 assassination of Eichhorn.
A peasant from Ryazan Governorate who went to Petrograd at fifteen and was conscripted into the Baltic Fleet in 1915. He joined the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries in 1916 and was arrested for organising a sailors' hunger strike. Freed by the February Revolution, he sat on the Kronstadt executive committee, led Baltic sailors against Kornilov and in October 1917 was commissar of Fort Ino. In spring 1918 he went to Ukraine with Irina Kakhovskaya to organise resistance to the German occupation and joined the Left SR combat organisation. On 30 July 1918 in Kiev he threw the bomb that killed Field Marshal Hermann von Eichhorn; a German military court sentenced him to death and he was publicly hanged on 10 August.
Activities and affiliations
Career Timeline
- 1915–1917Sailor on the transport Asia, Baltic Fleet; joined the Left SRs in 1916
- 1917Member of the Kronstadt executive committee; commissar of Fort Ino in the October Revolution
- 1918Member of the Left SR combat organisation; assassinated Eichhorn in Kiev on 30 July; hanged on 10 August