The Trial of the Fourteen ("Процесс 14-ти" in Russian

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) was a trial

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 of fourteen members of Narodnaya Volya. It took place on September 24-28 (October 6-10), 1884 in Saint Petersburg

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's district military

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 court

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. Vera Figner

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Vera Nikolayevna Figner was a Russian revolutionary and narodnik born in Kazan, Russia.-Biography:...

 - the last member of the Executive Committee of Narodnaya Volya to remain in Russia

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 - was the principal defendant

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. Other members, including Nikolai Rogachev, Mikhail Ashenbrenner, Alexander Shtromberg, N.D.Pokhitonov, A.P.Tikhanovich, Ivan Yuvachev

Ivan Yuvachev

Ivan Pavlovich Yuvachev was a narodovolets, a member of The People's Will revolutionary organization that assassinated Tsar Alexander II, after seven failed assassination attempts...

, Lyudmila Volkenstein and others - were also put on trial. They were all accused of taking part in terrorist

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 activities of Narodnaya Volya. Prosecution used a testimony

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 of Sergey Degayev

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Sergey Petrovich Degayev was a Russian terrorist, an agent of the Okhrana, and the murderer of inspector of secret police Georgy Sudeykin...

, who had been an agent

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 of the Okhrana. Vera Figner's last word was even printed abroad and distributed illegally in Russia.

Two of the members of Narodnaya Volya were sentenced to death (Rogachev and Shtromberg), other five - eternal katorga

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, other six - 15 to 20 years of katorga, and one of them - exile

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 to Siberia

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