Editing Vasily Generalov

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{{Infobox person
| name               = Vasily Generalov
| caption            = 
| birth_date         = {{Birth-date|March 8, 1867}}
| birth_place        = [[Pugachyovskaya, Volgograd Oblast|Potyomkinskaya]], [[Don Host Oblast]], [[Russian Empire]]
| death_date         = {{Death-date|May 8, 1887}} (aged 20)
| death_place        = [[Shlisselburg Fortress]], [[Russia]]
| death_cause        = [[Execution by hanging]]
}}
'''Vasily Denisovich Generalov''' (8 March 1867, [[Kotelnikovsky District|Potyomkinskaya]], [[Don Host Oblast]] - 8 May 1887) was a [[Russians|Russian]] [[revolutionary]] and a member of [[Narodnaya Volya (organization)|Narodnaya Volya]].

In 1886, Generalov enrolled in [[St. Petersburg University]] and later became a member of the "[[terrorism|Terrorist]] Faction" of Narodnaya Volya. He took active part in preparing the [[assassination]] of [[Alexander III of Russia|Alexander III]]. On March 1, 1887, Generalov was arrested at [[Nevsky Prospekt]], where he was supposed to murder the [[tsar]].

Generalov was tried and sentenced to death by [[hanging]] by the [[Special Presence of the Ruling Senate]]. He was executed in the [[Shlisselburg Fortress]].<ref>Pomper, Philip. ''Lenin's Brother: The Origins of the October Revolution.'' New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 2010. {{ISBN|978-0-393-07079-8}}</ref>

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