Alexander Trishatny | |
|---|---|
| Born | Тришатный, Александр Иосифович 1870 |
| Disappeared | April 1, 1920 (aged 50) |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Citizenship | Russian Empire, ? |
| Style | monarchism,antisemitism |
| Political party | Union of Russian People |
| Criminal charge(s) | organization ofpogroms, murders in 1905–17 |
Alexander Iosifovich Trishatny (Russian:Александр Иосифович Тришатный) (1870 – after 1920)[1] was aRussianright wing politician, one of the founders and leaders of theUnion of the Russian People (URP), aloyalistright-wingnationalist party, the most important[2] amongBlack-Hundredistmonarchist andantisemitic political organizations in theRussian Empire of 1905–1917; Deputy Chairman of URP, member of its first Board and one of the authors of the URP Charter. Concurrently, in 1905 was a leader of URP peripheral branch inYaroslavl.
Alexander Trishatny was born in 1870. A graduated engineer (university unknown).Collegiate secretary (title of X class; awarded to the best graduates of high school).[3][4]
Date of disappearance for Alexander Trishatny is set by the last day whenSergei Trishatny was seen in Petrograd under theCheka detention, because the protocols of Sergei's interrogations do not mention his brother Alexander as dead or wanted.
Alexander Trishatny was one of the founders of theUnion of the Russian People, who had set up their organization on November 8 [O.S. October 26] 1905 inPetersburg. Trishatny was chosen as one of two deputy chairmen of the URP, and was an organizer of an extensive regional network of URP local branches throughout the whole Russian Empire. It was on December 6 [O.S. November 23] 1905 when Trishatny with I. N. Katzaurov set up the first URP peripheral city branch inYaroslavl.Alexander Dubrovin, the URP chairman says about 60 peripheral party branches set up at the start-up period through the country due to the efforts of Trishatny.
On January 4 [O.S. December 23] 1906 Alexander Trishatny attended, in a delegation of his party, the reception of czarNicholas II. At this reception Trishatny gave a speech having read out a letter to the czar from the URP members ofYaroslavl, as a leader of this branch. The central point of this address to Nicholas II was a question, whether he shall preserve the foundations of autocracy in Russia. It is said, that the czar answered that "soon the sun of truth will shine over Russia and new laws will be issued that shall soothe everybody and dispel all doubts."
Alexander Trishatny is also named among those who wrote the Charter of the URP. In October 1906 Trishatny developed a guidance documentProgramme of organizational activities for the members of the Union of Russian People (Russian:«Программа работ по организации членов Союза Русского Народа»).
The organizational structure he proposed (and later, introduced) was a paramilitary network. Each 10 members composeddesyatka ("ten") which was a primary unit under the command ofdesyatnik. Each 10 "tens" constituted a sotnya ("hundred") subordinated tosotnik; each 10 "hundreds" constituted a tysyacha ("thousand") subordinated totysyachnik (modernized wordtysyatsky).