Shahid

Exactly 100 years ago

This episode was not attached to this episode: on February 5, 1901, the 19-year-old student Stepan Balmashev, from the pillar noblemen of the Arkhangelsk province, brought glass tubes with a certain impressive confusion to the city of Roslavl to Kiev University. From there, the student escaped and almost aimlessly traveled around the country, until he was in Saratov, where he made his acquaintance with members of the Socialist -Revolutionary Party. Grigory Gershuni just made his “combat organization” there and considered Balmashev a suitable candidate for the Bo terrorist debut. Pavel Kraft, who lived in Saratov under the vowel of the police, taught the former student to shoot and provided with poisoned bullets.

Exactly 100 years ago, on April 15, 1902, Gershuni and their ward came from Vyborg to St. Petersburg. Balmashev, dressed by the Adjutant officer, unhinderedly penetrated the Mariinsky Palace, where the Committee of Ministers (Bucolic era!) Was located, and began to wait for the Minister of the Interior Dmitry Sipyagin. Finally he arrived. “Mr. Minister, Papers from Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich,” said Balmashev, approaching the Sipyagin, and, grabbing the gun, fired two shots. Panic began. Gershuni at that time stood on the street in front of the palace. When officials without caps began to run out of the entrance, he realized that everything worked out. On the same day, another terrorist was supposed to kill the chief prosecutor of the Synod of Konstantin Pobedonostsev, but he preferred to disappear, and no one else heard anything about him, even the name of this failed militant was preserved. But be that as it may, the beginning of the terrorist activity of the Socialist Revolutionaries was laid.

Balmashev did not try to resist. When he was seized, he only cried out: "It is necessary to act with these people." The manager of the Committee of Ministers Anatoly Kulomzin arrived in the palace. “You are probably not an officer,” he turned to Balmashev. “No, officer,” he answered with a challenge, “as I can shoot!” Sipyagin died an hour and a half.

The next day, the terrorist turned 21 years old. During the interrogation, he said: “I consider the terrorist way of struggle to be cruel and inhuman, but the only, unfortunately, possible. On the question you proposed, whether I committed the crime on my own, as well as on other questions, I do not want to testify. ” The young man was persuaded to submit a petition for pardon, but he arrogantly refused. However, the petition filed by his mother was left unanswered.

On May 16, at four in the morning, in the courtyard of the Shlisselburg fortress, Stepan Balmashev was hanged by the verdict of the military court of St. Petersburg. He abandoned confession and communion, and quit the priest: "I do not want to deal with hypocrites." But even if a person sacrifices himself as an absolutely atheistic cause, he still looks like a marten.