Gershuni


Name: Gershuni, Grigorii Andreevich
Variants and Aliases: Isaak Tsukovich Gersh
DoB (OS): 18/02/1870
Dob (NS): 02/03/1870
Place of Birth: Kaunas (Lithuania)
Background: Jewish petty-bourgeois family
Occupation: pharmacist, owner of chemical factory
Membership of revolutionary groups: Battle organization, Socialist Revolutionary Party
Arrested: 1903
Sentence: Death sentence, commuted to lifelong hard labour
Incarceration prior to Shlissel’burg: Peter and Paul Fortress (St Petersburg)
Date of transfer to Shlissel’burg (OS): 31/08/1904
Date of transfer (NS): 13/09/1904
Date of release from Shlissel’burg (OS): 30/01/1906
Date of release (NS): 12/02/1906
Transferred to: Nerchinsk Hard Labour
Activity after release: Escaped, resumed revolutionary activity in Europe
Date of death (NS): 29/03/1908
Place of death: Zurich
Cause of death: tuberculosis

Writings: Iz nedavnogo proshlogo (From my Recent Past, 1908)