Dmitry Bogrov

Dmitry Grigoriyevich Bogrov (Russian: Дмитрий Григорьевич Богров; 10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1887 – 25 September [O.S. 12 September] 1911) was the assassin of Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin.

Bogrov in 1910

On 22 September [O.S. 9 September] 1911 Bogrov was sentenced to death by hanging. He was executed on 25 September [O.S. 12 September] 1911 in the Kiev fortress Lyssa Hora.

Stolypin's widow had campaigned in vain to spare the young assassin's life. The investigations into the background of the assassination extended over a year. Through the intervention of Nicholas II, further investigations were prohibited. According to Egor Lazarev, Bogrov claimed to have committed the assassination in revenge for the antisemitism of the Russian Empire which he personally endured. However, his true motives for the assassination remain disputed as he was both a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party and an informant for the Okhrana.[1][2]

References
  1. Khiterer, Victoria (2016), "Appendix. Dmitrii Bogrov and the Assassination of Stolypin", Jewish City or Inferno of Russian Israel?, Academic Studies Press, pp. 428–436, doi:10.1515/9781618114778-018, ISBN 978-1-61811-477-8, S2CID 243243667
  2. Figes, Orlando (1996). A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891–1924. London: Jonathan Cape. p. 230. ISBN 0-224-04162-2. OCLC 35657827.

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