About Alexei Pokotilov
Lived 1879 – 1904 (aged 24–25). Alexei Pokotilov was a Russian revolutionary.
Alexei Dmitrievich Pokotilov (; 1879–1904) was an Eser, terrorist, a member of the Combat Organization of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, and one of the participants in the assassination of The Minister of Internal Affairs Vyacheslav von Plehve.
Biography Alexei Pokotilov belonged to a noble family. His father was a major general. He studied at the Kyiv University.
In 1901, he was deported under police supervision for 2 years due to participation in a demonstration near the Kazan Cathedral in Saint Petersburg. Pokotilov lived in Poltava, from where he managed to escape.
On the night of April 1, 1904, he died in an explosion at the Northern Hotel, Saint Petersburg.
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Who was Alexei Pokotilov?
Russian terrorist (1879–1904)
When was Alexei Pokotilov born?
Alexei Pokotilov was born in 1879.
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Alexei Pokotilov died on 31 March 1904 in Saint Petersburg.
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Alexei Pokotilov was a revolutionary.
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Alexei Pokotilov was Russian.
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