Editing Nikolai Schedrin

{{Short description|Russian revolutionary}}
{{Infobox person
|name=Nikolai Schedrin
|image=Николай Щедрин.jpg
|caption=Schedrin in 1905
|birth_date=1858
|birth_place=[[Russia]]
|death_date={{death date|1919|1|10|df=y}}
|death_place=[[psychiatric hospital]], [[Kazan]]
}}

'''Nikolay Pavlovich Schedrin''' (''Николай Павлович Щедрин'' in [[Russian language|Russian]]) (1858 — 10 January 1919) was a Russian [[revolutionary]] and [[narodnik]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=|first=|title=Popov M. Р. Н. P. Shedrin // Byloe. - 1906. - № 12|publisher=|year=|isbn=|location=|pages=}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Nikolay Schedrin graduated from a [[military]] [[gymnasium (school)|gymnasium]] in [[Omsk]]. In 1876, he joined [[Zemlya i volya]] in [[St.Petersburg|St. Petersburg]].

After its split in 1879, Schedrin became a member of the [[Black Repartition]]. Together with [[Yelizaveta Kovalskaya]], he organized the [[Workers' Union of Southern Russia]] in the spring of 1880 and composed its program and numerous leaflets.

Schedrin was arrested in October 1880 and sentenced to death by the district military court in [[Kiev]] on 29 May 1881. His sentence was later exchanged for eternal [[katorga]]. Schedrin was first sent to the [[Kara katorga]], then Alekseyevsky [[ravelin]] in 1882, and later [[Shlisselburg fortress]] in 1884.

He soon became mentally ill and was finally transferred to a [[psychiatric hospital]] in [[Kazan]] in 1896, where he would die two years after the [[October Revolution]].

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