Karavaev Alexander L.

(1855 - 1908). The son of a peasant, he was a child and youth suffered extreme poverty. After graduating from the Medical Academy, was a country doctor in the province of Perm, near St. Petersburg and then on Shlisselburgsky tract, where he acquired enormous popularity among the workers, in 1897. arrested and expelled from St. Petersburg Province, was a doctor in the hospital, arranged by Baranowski, the landowner of the Minsk province, then in Yekaterinoslav, where he took an active part in all social undertakings. In 1906, Mr.. published under the pseudonym A. L. brochure: "The Party and the peasantry in the State Duma" (Rostov-na-Donu, 1906), which defended the program and activities of working groups. In 1907, Mr.. elected in Yekaterynoslav II in the Duma, where he became the leader of the Labor Party and separated speeches on the land issue. After the dissolution of the Duma returned to LOTS, where he enjoyed widespread popularity. March 4, 1908, Mr.. two unknowns came to see him and shot him, then quietly withdrew. A few days later some guidance Karavaeva relatives had been arrested two people. They were charged, among others, servants Karavaeva and patient, waiting for him in the waiting room, and they have been identified, but released for lack of evidence, after which the investigation discontinued. Former member of the department Ekaterinoslav Union of Russian People, . Kazakov, . later told several people about the plot to life Karavaeva, . organized by the Union of the Russian people, with the participation of several members of the Duma, on the basis of his testimony in the State Duma III was presented with a request signed by members of the Duma, the Social-Democrats, . Trudoviks and constitutional democracy, . indicating some members of the Duma, . as participants in the conspiracy against Karavaeva,
. Request was rejected by the State Duma and member of the State Duma I. Gololobov filed a complaint against 33 members signed the request, accusing them of libel. The complaint that led to the possibility of prosecution of members of the Duma, as the immune. By virtue of the Imperial approval of the Council of Ministers, the complaint was sent to the I Department of the State Council, and the issue of the trial of Deputies resolved in the affirmative, and the trial was held. To date (June 1914) trial has not yet taken place. - See. "Friend of the people, Caravan" (St. Petersburg, 1910).