Vladimir Vladimirovich Mazurin

Владимир Владимирович Мазурин

1882–1906 ✕ Hanged by field court martial

Combat commander of the Moscow uprising and founding leader of the Maximalist SRs

His last words on the way to the gallows in Taganka Prison: "Tell mother that I died calmly."

One of the founding leaders of the Union of Socialists-Revolutionaries-Maximalists (SSRM), the radical left faction that split from the PSR in 1906. During the December 1905 Moscow armed uprising he commanded a combat druzhina on the Kazan Railway and fought at Chistye Prudy and Presnya, leading the spectacular expropriation of 875,000 rubles from the Moscow Mutual Credit Society in March 1906. A Moscow University natural-sciences student arrested in 1904, he was freed by the October Manifesto amnesty and immediately returned to armed struggle; rejecting the PSR's two-stage revolution, he demanded immediate full socialization and a 'Toilers' Republic'. Wounded resisting arrest in August 1906, he was tried by field court martial and hanged at Taganka Prison at the age of 24.