Pyotr Yakovlevich Shevyryov (Пётр Я́ковлевич Шевырёв in Russian

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) (6.23(7.5).1863 — 5.8(20).1887), Russian revolutionary

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, member of Narodnaya Volya.

In 1883, Shevyrev enrolled in the University of Kharkov and later transferred to St.Petersburg University. In the winter of 1885—1886, he organized an illegal

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 club called "Student Union" (Союз землячеств, or Soyuz zemlyachestv). In the late 1886, Shevyrev and Aleksandr Ulyanov

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 created the "Terrorist

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 Faction" of Narodnaya Volya, which would be responsible for devising the attempted assassination

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 of Alexander III

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 on March 1, 1887. In February 1887, Shevyrev left for the Crimea

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 due to his tuberculosis

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.

Shevyrev was arrested in Yalta

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 on March 7. On April 19, at St. Petersburg, he was sentenced to death by hanging

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 during the Pervomartovtsi

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 trial

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. He was executed at the fortress of Shlisselburg

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some two weeks later.