Assassination attempts on Vladimir Lenin
The most famous of them was committed on August 30, 1918, by the Socialist Revolutionary Party member Fanny Kaplan, as a result of which Lenin was seriously wounded.
[1] A few years later, while in exile, Prince Dmitry Shakhovskoy announced that he was the organizer of the assassination attempt and allocated five hundred thousand rubles for this purpose.
On the night of January 22, the All–Russian Extraordinary Commission arrested the conspirators at 14 Zakharyevskaya Street, in the apartment of "citizen Salova", but then they are all sent to the front at their personal request.
At the station Malaya Vishera there was a clash of deserters numbering up to 400 sailors and 200 soldiers with numerically superior Latvian Riflemen.
[5] Historian Richard Pipes, in his work "Bolsheviks in the Struggle for Power", described this incident as follows: "The company was traveling on a special train, guarded by Latvian Riflemen.
On August 30, 1918, at the Michelson Plant in Moscow, an attempt was made on Lenin, according to the official version – by the half–blind[6] Socialist Revolutionary Fanny Kaplan.
The extraordinary commissioners established that the unknown is a former anarchist Fanny Kaplan, who before the revolution was involved in the assassination attempt on the Kiev Governor–General.
The details of the assassination attempt were based on what authorities decided to report to the public in early 1922 only after the Bolshevik government held the first open political trial of the leaders of the Socialist Revolutionary Party (SR).
The first assassination attempt was made by the Socialist Revolutionaries on August 16 at a meeting of the Moscow Party Committee, but the perpetrator lost his nerve at the last moment.
[11][12] As a result of the assassination attempts on Vladimir Lenin and Moisey Uritsky, the supreme body of Soviet power – the All–Russian Central Executive Committee, chaired by Yakov Sverdlov, announced the beginning of the Red Terror.
In September 1918, Trotsky rushed back from the far-eastern front of the civil war and reached Moscow after the second day of the shooting whereas Stalin remained in Tsaritsyn.
On January 6, 1919, Kuznetsov's gang accidentally robbed a car with Lenin,[14][15] who was driving to Nadezhda Krupskaya (according to the version in numerous stories – to a Christmas tree) at the Forestry School in Sokolniki.
According to researcher Viktor Savchenko, an underground anarchist group led by Maria Nikiforova ("Marusya") in the summer of 1919 began to develop plans to assassinate Lenin and Trotsky.
After a series of "expropriations", the anarchists, under the slogan of starting a "dynamite war with the Council of People's Commissars and the Extraordinary Commission", blew up the building of the Moscow Party Committee on September 25, 1919, in which Lenin was expected to speak.
[citation needed] On the October Holidays of 1919, the anarchists planned to blow up the Kremlin, but the entire organization was opened by the All–Russian Extraordinary Commission and almost all were arrested, seven people were shot.
