Nikolai Pavlovich Schmidt (Russian: Николай Павлович Шмит; 22 December 1883 – 26 February 1907) was a Russian revolutionary aligned with the Bolsheviks. He was arrested in October 1905 during the 1905 Revolution. He apparently committed suicide in suspicious circumstances whilst in prison expecting imminent release.[1] Others researchers claimed that he was intentionally killed. Before that he was tortured in order to obtain self-evidence against him on his role in 1905 Revolution.
Schmidt was related through his mother to Savva Morozov. His father Pavel Aleksandrovich Schmidt married Vera Vikulovna Morozova, the heiress of a rich Old Believer family. Both he and his uncle were sympathetic to the Bolsheviks and provided funds for their newspaper, Novaya Zhizn.[2]
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- ^ Volkogonov, Dmitri (2008). Lenin. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-0554-2. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
- ^ Turton, Katy (2017). Family Networks and the Russian Revolutionary Movement, 1870–1940. Springer. ISBN 978-0-230-39308-0.