Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kvyatkovsky (Александр Александрович Квятковский in Russian

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) (January, 1853 — 11.4(16).1880) was a Russia

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n revolutionary

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 and member of the Executive Committee of Narodnaya Volya.

Aleksandr Kvyatkovsky was a student at St.Petersburg Institute of Technology in 1874-1875. He took an active part in the Going into the people

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 movement in Tula

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, Nizhny Novgorod

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 and Voronezh

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 in 1874-1879. Kvyatkovsky was one of the organizers of the Zemlya i volya in 1876. He also joined a terrorist

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 group called Liberty or Death (Свобода или смерть). Kvyatkovsky participated in the Lipetsk and Voronezh Congresses of Zemlya i volya. He was also one of the organizers of Narodnaya Volya. In September-November 1879, Kvyatkovsky was in charge of a clandestine print shop

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 and acted as a liaison between the Executive Committee and Stepan Khalturin during the planning stages of a terrorist act in the Winter Palace

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Kvyatkovsky was arrested on November 24, 1879 and sentenced to death at the Trial of the Sixteen

Trial of the Sixteen (1880)

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 in 1880. He was executed in the Peter and Paul Fortress

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