Pyotr Filippovich Yakubovich | |
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| Native name | Пётр Филиппович Якубович |
| Born | (1860-11-03)November 3, 1860 Isaevo,Valdaysky Uyezd,Novgorod Governorate,Russian Empire (nowBologovsky District,Tver Oblast,Russian Federation) |
| Died | March 30, 1911(1911-03-30) (aged 50) Udelnaya [ru],Sankt-Peterburgsky Uyezd,Saint Petersburg Governorate,Russian Empire (nowVyborgsky District,Saint Petersburg,Russian Federation) |
| Resting place | Literator Bridges [ru],Volkovo Cemetery,Saint Petersburg |
| Citizenship |  Russian Empire |
Pyotr Filippovich Yakubovich (Russian:Пётр Филиппович Якубович; November 3 [O.S. October 22] 1860 – March 30 [O.S. March 17/] 1911) was a Russianrevolutionary, poet and member ofNarodnaya Volya (People's Will Party) during the 1880s.
Pyotr Yakubovich was born on November 3 [O.S. October 22] 1860 in landed property Isaevo,Valdaysky Uyezd,Novgorod Governorate,Russian Empire. From the nobility. His father, Philip Tarasovich Yakubovich (1817-1883), a retired captain, served as an officia.
He graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology ofPetersburg University (1882). After graduating, he entered the Petersburg Department of Narodnaya Volya. He was an organizer of the "Young People's Will Party" as well as its leader and ideologist.
From the age of 24, he spent many years of his life in prisons andkatorga. He spent three years in thePeter-Paul Fortress for participation in political movements and was subjected to penal servitude in Siberia from 1887 to 1899. He served his sentence in theKara katorga. In 1890 he was transferred to theAkatuy katorga. Since September 1895, he was at the settlement inKurgan.
He published in 1895 — under the pseudonymL. Melshin — a series of essays life for the prisoners inSiberia:V Mire Otverzjennych (In the World of the Outcasts), andPasynki zhizni (Life's Stepchildren).
In 1899 he received permission to live inKazan, and in 1903 - inUdelnaya [ru],Sankt-Peterburgsky Uyezd,Saint Petersburg Governorate.
According to an article onLeon Trotsky byDavid North (referring to Yakubovich's poems) "His poems, which evoked the heroism and tragedy of the doomed struggle of the revolutionary terrorists against tsarism, made a deep moral impact upon the youth of the 1890s."[1]
For a list of some of his other works, see "The Lied and Art Song Texts Page" on him.[2]
