Lopatin Herman A.

Born in 1845, graduated from the course in Physics and Mathematics at St. Petersburg. In 1868, Mr.. arrested and exiled to the Caucasus Stavropol with the definition of the service to the Governor, here he managed to transform the local library and a question of replacing in the Stavropol province communal peasant land tenure gripper community-pig by the decision of village meetings,
. In 1869, Mr.. arrested as a result of a letter found in one of Nechayev involved in the case; escaped from a military stockade and went into hiding. In 1870, Mr.. organized escape Lavrov abroad. By joining the International, he became friendly with Bakunin, and Marx and Engels. In 1872, Mr.. traveled to Siberia to release Chernyshevskogo, but was arrested in 1873,. fled to Russia and then abroad. During one of several trips to the revolutionary business in Russia was arrested in 1879. and exiled to Vologda, where in 1883. fled abroad, but soon again came to St Petersburg. Direct involvement in the murder Sudeikina Lopatin not take because he thought it impossible to act in concert with Degayev, but led the latter to fulfill the commitment undertaken. In 1884, Mr.. formally joined the party of the People's Will and acted as a member of a new executive committee, trying to collect the scattered remnants of the People's Will. October 6, 1884, Mr.. arrested, in 1887, Mr.. the so-called Lopatinskii case facing the death penalty, which was commuted to life imprisonment in the Schliisselburg fortress where Lopatin and spent 18 years. Released by an amnesty in October 1905. (without the restoration of the rights of the state), now lives in St. Petersburg. A man of great erudition and a rare personal appeal, he played a major role in each of those organizations to which he belonged in the breaks between imprisonment and links. - See. P. Lawrow "H. Lopatin "(in the" Neue Zeit ", 1889)," Process 21 "(Geneva, 1888).