- Grigory Gershuni
Infobox Person
name=Gregory Gershuni
caption=
birth_date=OldStyleDate|September 29|1870|September 17
birth_place=Kovno ,Lithuania
death_date=OldStyleDate|March 29|1908|March 16
death_place=Zurich ,Switzerland Grigory Andreyevich Gershuni ( _ru. Григорий Андреевич Гершуни) (OldStyleDate|September 29|1870|September 17–OldStyleDate|March 29|1908|March 16) was a
Russia nrevolutionary and one of the founders of theSocialist-Revolutionary Party .Early life
Born in
Kovno ,Russia 1870 toJew ishpeasant s. Gershuni studyed as apharmacist atKiev University . Later opening his own bacteriologicallaboratory inMinsk .Revolutionary Life
Gershuni was a
socialist going on to become a founding member of the Workers' Party for the Political Liberation of Russia. This led to him being arrested in 1900 by theOkhrana (secret police).After his eventual release he joined with fellow revolutionaries including
Catherine Breshkovsky ,Victor Chernov ,Alexander Kerensky andYevno Azef establishing theSocialist Revolutionary Party in 1901.Gershuni also founded in 1902 the SR Combat Organisation, which became responsible for planning the assassination of the Minister of Interior, D. S. Sipyagin which was a success.
In 1903 Gershuni and the SR Combat Organisation arranged to assassinate N. M. Bogdanorich, the Governor of
Ufa , but Gershuni was unaware that Evno Azef, his deputy was working as anOkhrana spy . In 1904 this betrayal finally led to Gershuni's arrest after Azef supplied the Okhrana with information linking Gershuni toterrorism .Gershuni was sentenced to death in court, though his sentence was reduced to
life imprisonment and hard labour. In 1905 he was able to escape from the Akatui Prison located in EasternSiberia . From Siberia he escaped in a barrel of sourkraut to China.After China, he traveled to America, where he met Jane Addams, but eventually arrived back in Europe in February, 1907. There he continued to argue for a campaign of terror to
overthrow theTsar in Russia. Gershuni strongly defended Azef against claims of being a traitor until his death inZurich , 1908 oftuberculosis .Fact|date=February 2008
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