Dmitry Bogrov
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Dmitry Grigoriyevich Bogrov (Russian: Дмитрий Григорьевич Богров) (1887 – 1911) was the assassin of the Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin.
Born Mordekhai Gershkovich Bogrov (Мордехай Гершкович Богров) into a Jewish family in Kiev, (then of the Russian Empire). He had been an agent of the Okhranka since 1906. Bogrov informed his superiors on the activities of Social Democrats and anarchists.
On 14 September 1911, Dmitry Bogrov shot and killed the Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin in the Kiev Opera theater in front of Tsar Nicholas II. This act was supposedly performed to incite discontent among the people and spur revolution.
Bogrov was tried by the district military court. Despite the plea of Stolypin's widow to the court to save Bogrov's life (she said that taking the young man's life would not bring her husband back), Bogrov was sentenced to death and executed by hanging on September 24 (September 11 old style), 1911, in the Kiev fortress of Lysa Hora.
The investigation of Stolypin's assassination was later discontinued by the order of Nicholas II.
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