Nikolai Pavlovich Schmidt

Nikolai Pavlovich Schmidt (Russian: Николай Павлович Шмит; 22 December 1883 – 26 February 1907) was a Russian revolutionary aligned with the Bolsheviks. He was arrested in October 1905 during the 1905 Revolution. He apparently committed suicide in suspicious circumstances whilst in prison expecting imminent release.[1] Others researchers claimed that he was intentionally killed. Before that he was tortured in order to obtain self-evidence against him on his role in 1905 Revolution.

The body of Nikolai Pavlovich Schmidt on display after his death

Schmidt was related through his mother to Savva Morozov. His father Pavel Aleksandrovich Schmidt married Vera Vikulovna Morozova, the heiress of a rich Old Believer family. Both he and his uncle were sympathetic to the Bolsheviks and provided funds for their newspaper, Novaya Zhizn.[2]

References
  1. Volkogonov, Dmitri (2008). Lenin. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-0554-2. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  2. Turton, Katy (2017). Family Networks and the Russian Revolutionary Movement, 1870–1940. Springer. ISBN 978-0-230-39308-0.
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