Dmitry Bogrov
Dmitry Grigoriyevich Bogrov was the assassin of the Russian Minister Of The Interior Pyotr Stolypin.
Born Mordechai Gershkovich Bogrov into a family of Jewish merchants in Kiev, Bogrov, while simultaneously acting as an anarchist revolutionary, had been an agent of the Okhrana secret police since 1906, informing on the activities of Socialist Revolutionaries, Social Democrats and anarchists.
On 14 September 1911, Dmitry Bogrov shot the Russian prime minister Pyotr Stolypin, in the Kiev Opera House, in front of Tsar Nicholas II and two of the imperial princesses. Stolypin died four days later. This act was committed ostensibly in order to decapitate a successful and popular conservative reform movement and thus hasten violent revolution. However, it has been alleged that Bogrov was permitted to act at the behest of extreme right-wing elements in the Tsarist secret police who detested Stolypin because of his agrarian reforms and his flair for parliamentary government..
Bogrov was tried by the district military court. Despite the plea of Stolypin's widow to the court to save Bogrov's life, Bogrov was sentenced to death and executed by hanging on in the Kiev fortress of Lysa Hora.
