In memory of Nikolai Bowman On October 31, 1905, Bolshevik revolutionary Nikolai Ernstovich Bowman was killed by a member of the Black Hundred. Bowman was a member of the "Union of the Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class" in St. Petersburg (1896 - 1897). An agent of the newspaper "Iskara" (Spark). Leader of the Moscow organization of the RSDLP and the Northern Bureau of the Party Central Committee (1904 - 1905). Bauman's funeral became a grand political demonstration of 300,000 people, which played a significant role in preparing the Moscow proletariat for the armed uprising in December. In the newspaper "Proletari" on October 25 (November 7) 1905 (No. 24) an obituary was published in memory of N. A. Bowman, written by W. J. Lenin "Eternal memory," Lenin wrote, "to a fighter in the ranks of the Russian social-democratic proletariat! Eternal memory to a revolutionary who fell in the first days of the victorious revolution! May the honors paid by the insurgent people to Afro be a pledge for the complete victory of the rebellion and the complete destruction of the accursed tsarism! "The murderer - the 29-year-old man of the black century Nikolai Michlin - was sentenced by the district court in Moscow to only a year and a half in prison. But after only 5 months, Nicholas II pardoned him. It was only in the 1920s that he was discovered by the GPU authorities and received his due punishment. Remember the source.

In memory of Nikolai Bowman On October 31, 1905, Bolshevik revolutionary Nikolai Ernstovich Bowman was killed by a member of the Black Hundred. Bowman was a member of the "Union of the Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class" in St. Petersburg (1896 - 1897). An agent of the newspaper "Iskara" (Spark). Leader of the Moscow organization of the RSDLP and the Northern Bureau of the Party Central Committee (1904 - 1905). Bauman's funeral became a grand political demonstration of 300,000 people, which played a significant role in preparing the Moscow proletariat for the armed uprising in December. In the newspaper "Proletari" on October 25 (November 7) 1905 (No. 24) an obituary was published in memory of N. A. Bowman, written by W. J. Lenin "Eternal memory," Lenin wrote, "to a fighter in the ranks of the Russian social-democratic proletariat! Eternal memory to a revolutionary who fell in the first days of the victorious revolution! May the honors paid by the insurgent people to Afro be a pledge for the complete victory of the rebellion and the complete destruction of the accursed tsarism! "The murderer - the 29-year-old man of the black century Nikolai Michlin - was sentenced by the district court in Moscow to only a year and a half in prison. But after only 5 months, Nicholas II pardoned him. It was only in the 1920s that he was discovered by the GPU authorities and received his due punishment. Remember the source.