Aizik Aronchik

Aizik Borisovich Aronchik (Russian: Айзик Борисович Арончик; 28 December 1859 – 2 April 1888) was a Russian revolutionary, who took part in a failed attempt to assassinate the Tsar Alexander II.

[1][2] Aronchik's family were Jewish traders, from Gomel, present day Belarus, he studied at the St Petersburg Institute of Railway Engineers, but dropped out in 1879, without finishing the course, after having made contact with revolutionaries.

[1] In 1879-80, he and a fellow revolutionary, Galina Cheryavskaya posing as a married couple, under the name of Silantiev, occupied a safe house where members of Narodnaya Volya could meet.

In November 1879, he was involved in an attempt by Narodnaya Volya to kill the Tsar by exploding a mine under the Moscow - Kursk railway as his train passed.

He told the court: "I never distinguished, and don't do so now, between the principles of the Narodnaya Volya and Chernyi Peredel factions.