Virgil Leonovich Shantser (Russian: Виргилий Леонович Шанцер; 21 September 1867 — 29 November 1911) (pseudonym - Marat) was a Bolshevik revolutionary active in the Moscow uprising of 1905.
He attended the Gymnasium in Nikolaev, and in the late 1880s he became a supporter of People’s Will, the major populist revolutionary organization.
[1] In 1904 he became a member of the Bolshevik Moscow Committee, where he soon took on a leading role during the 1905 Revolution, editing the newspaper Rabochii.
According to Liadov "Shantser was a colourful personality (who) went about his business carrying two revolvers in his belt, but was honest and tactful in his dealings with his Party colleagues".
[4] Abroad, the Bolsheviks were divided over the issue of whether their deputies should participating in the Third Duma, which Lenin thought they should.