Popov

Name: Popov, Mikhail Rodionovich
Variants and Aliases: Rodionich
DoB (OS): 14/11/1851
Dob (NS): 26/11/1851
Place of Birth: Ekaterinoslav Governate (Dnipro, Ukraine)
Background: clergy family
Occupation: student, revolutionary
Membership of revolutionary groups: Land and Liberty, Black Repartition, People’s Will
Arrested: 1880
Trial: Kiev (1880)
Sentence: Death sentence, commuted to lifelong hard labour
Incarceration prior to Shlissel’burg: Kara Hard Labour; Peter and Paul Fortress (St Petersburg)
Date of transfer to Shlissel’burg (OS): 02/08/1884
Date of transfer (NS): 14/08/1884
Date of release from Shlissel’burg (OS): 28/10/1905
Date of release (NS): 10/11/1905
Transferred to: Freed
Date of death (OS): 04/01/1909
Date of death (NS): 17/01/1909
Place of death: Rostov-on-Don

Writings: ‘K biografii Ippolita Nikiticha Myshkina’ (Towards a biography of Ippolit Myshkin, 1906); ‘Mechti o svobode: iz Shlisselʹburgskikh vospominanii’ (Dreams of Freedom, 1917)

Depicted in: Pankratov, Life in Shlissel’burg Fortress; Novorusskii, Tiuremnye Robinzony