Dmitri
Bogrov,
the son of a wealthy Jewish
attorney, was born in Kiev in 1887. He studied law at Kiev University
and at Munich University.
On his return
to Russia in 1906 he joined the Socialist
Revolutionary Party. The
following year he was recruited by Okhrana
and over the next three years he was paid 100 rubles a month for spying
on party activists.
In February,
1910, Bogrov moved to St. Petersburg. He continued his spying activities
and his salary was increased to 150 rubles a month.
In what was
probably an act of remorse, Bogrov entered the Kiev Opera House on 1st September, 1911, and assassinated Peter
Stolypin,
the Minister of the Interior. Dmitri
Bogrov
was hanged on 11th September,
1911.
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