Eugen Waldemar Schauman (Russian: Евгений Владимирович Шауман, romanized: Yevgeny Vladimirovich Shauman; 10 May [O.S.

At the age of eight, Schauman heard that there was a collection going on in Nykarleby, Finland to erect a memorial to the victory over the Russians that had occurred in the 1808 Battle of Jutas in the Finnish War.

[2] Nonetheless, Schauman matriculated at the Nya Svenska Läroverket in 1895; graduated from the University of Helsinki with an upper degree in government studies in 1899; and began his career as a clerk in the senate in 1901.

[4][2][5] In addition to his job at the senate, Schauman arranged for a series of marksmanship courses aimed at local students in Helsinki.

His father, Waldemar Schauman, resigned as senator in the summer 1900 as a protest against the manifesto, that had made the Russian language a compulsory subject in all Finnish schools.

At first Schauman acted against the oppression like the other students: joining protests at the Runeberg statue; spreading leaflets calling for the will to battle and hatred towards the Russians; and gathering names for the Great Petition in Uusimaa.

He organised shipments of weapons from abroad by shipping American rifles to Finland with the help of the Finnish Hunting Association, which were then distributed to students.

Thousands of Finns participated in demonstrations at Senate Square angered by the draft conducted at the Russian Guard barracks.

Two of the bullets that hit Bobrikov ricocheted off his military decorations, but the third bounced back from his buckle and caused severe damage to his stomach.

Surgeon Richard Faltin [fi] worked to save his life, but Bobrikov died the following day at 1:10 a.m.[9][1][10] Schauman's body was taken to an unmarked grave in the Malmi cemetery in Helsinki.

[11] Schauman left a letter in which he stated that he justified his actions as a punishment for Bobrikov's crimes against the people of Finland.

He addressed the letter to the Tsar and wanted him to pay attention to the problems in the whole of the Russian empire, especially in Poland and the Baltic Sea region.

[14] In the summer of 2004, a hundred years after Bobrikov's murder, Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen condemned the act, calling Schauman a terrorist.