Nikolai Pavlovich Schmidt
The body of Nikolai Pavlovich Schmidt on display after his death
Nikolai Pavlovich Schmidt (1883 – 1905) 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]
Schmidt was the nephew of Savva Morozov. His father married , 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[]
- ^ Volkogonov, Dmitri (2008). Lenin. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-0554-2. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
- ^ Turton, Katy (2017). Family Networks and the Russian Revolutionary Movement, 1870–1940. Springer. ISBN 978-0-230-39308-0.
Categories:
- 1883 births
- 1907 deaths
- Russian revolutionaries
- Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members
- Bolshevik finance
- 1907 suicides