- Aleksandr Kvyatkovsky
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name=Aleksandr Kvyatkovsky
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birth_date=January, 1853
birth_place=Russia
death_date=November 4 ,1880 –November 16 ,1880
death_place=Peter and Paul Fortress ,Russia Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kvyatkovsky ("Александр Александрович Квятковский" in Russian) (January, 1853 — 11.4(16).1880) was a
Russia nrevolutionary and member of the Executive Committee ofNarodnaya 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 movement in Tula,
Nizhny Novgorod andVoronezh in 1874-1879. Kvyatkovsky was one of the organizers of theZemlya i volya in 1876. He also joined a terrorist 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 aclandestine print shop and acted as a liaison between the Executive Committee andStepan Khalturin during the planning stages of a terrorist act in theWinter Palace .Kvyatkovsky was arrested on
November 24 ,1879 and sentenced to death at the Trial of the Sixteen in 1880. He was executed in thePeter and Paul Fortress .
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