Military organization "People's Will"
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Military organization "People's Will"
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Mikhail Ashenbrenner's fate is unique. An officer, lieutenant colonel, he became a member of the military wing of the terrorist organization "Narodnaya Volya", the apotheosis of whose activities was the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, was arrested and sentenced to hanging, which was replaced by twenty years in the Shlisselburg fortress. Favored in his old age by the Bolsheviks, he lived out his life in the "Ilyich House of Veterans of the Revolution."
His memoirs are an account of how a young man raised in liberal traditions, having seen army manners, breaks his oath and eventually enters the service of terror. Published in 1924 and not published since then, they are interesting primarily because they show the "People's Will" from the inside and describe the prison life of the People's Volunteers. The author proudly recounts his life and laments the "unbearable embarrassment" experienced in the tsarist prison by people involved in many murders. And then he bluntly informs that they baked "big cakes" in their cells, made moonshine and "made liqueurs by adding berry juice".
His memoirs are an account of how a young man raised in liberal traditions, having seen army manners, breaks his oath and eventually enters the service of terror. Published in 1924 and not published since then, they are interesting primarily because they show the "People's Will" from the inside and describe the prison life of the People's Volunteers. The author proudly recounts his life and laments the "unbearable embarrassment" experienced in the tsarist prison by people involved in many murders. And then he bluntly informs that they baked "big cakes" in their cells, made moonshine and "made liqueurs by adding berry juice".
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