Arkhip Bogolyubov

While he was at university Bogolyubov decided to go to the people, and spent several months trying to radicalise peasants around Taganrog, and Rostov-on-Don, in south Russia.

"[2] But the police believed he was one of the students involved in a fight that broke out after the demonstration, and he was sentenced to fifteen years hard labour.

Trepov was enraged when Bogolyubov failed to take off his cap, and knocked it off his head, setting off a loud and violent protest by prisoners watching from their cells.

When the barber came to perform his office, the poor wretch screamed with terror and resisted with the fury of despair.

This act was the start of the wave of political violence that culminated in the assassination of the Tsar Alexander II.