Dmitry Bogrov
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Dmitry Grigoriyevich Bogrov (Russian: Дмитрий Григорьевич Богров) a.k.a. Mordekhai Gershkovich Bogrov (Мордехай Гершкович Богров) was the assassin of the Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin.
Bogrov was a Russian Jew born in Kiev, Russian Empire (now Kiev, Ukraine) in 1887. He had been an agent of the Okhranka since 1906. Bogrov informed his superiors on the activities of Social Democrats and anarchists. Some scholars state that Bogrov, together with his elder brother, belonged to a clandestine Mason ring.
On 14 September 1911, Dmitry Bogrov shot and killed the prime-minister of Russia Pyotr Stolypin in the Kiev Opera theater in front of Tsar Nicholas II. This act was supposedly performed to incite discontent among the people and hence revolution.
Bogrov was tried by the district military court. Despite the plea of the widow of slain Stolypin to the court to save Bogrov's life (she said that taking the young man's life would not bring her husband back), Bogrov was sentenced to death and executed by hanging on September 24 (September 11 old style), 1911, in the Kiev fortress of Lysa Hora.
The investigation of Stolypin's assassination was later discontinued by the order of Nicholas II.
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