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pyotr yakubovich

pyotr filippovich yakubovich -lrb- ; november 3 , 1860 -- march 30 , 1911 -rrb- was a russian revolutionary , poet and member of narodnaya volya -lrb- people 's will party -rrb- during the 1880s .
he graduated from the faculty of history and philology of petersburg university -lrb- 1882 -rrb- .
after graduating , he entered the petersburg department of narodnaya volya .
he was an organizer of the `` young people 's will party '' as well as its leader and ideologist .
from the age of 24 , he spent many years of his life in prisons and `` katorga '' .
he spent three years in the peter-paul fortress for participation in political movements and was subjected to penal servitude in siberia from 1887 to 1899 .
he published in 1895 -- under the pseudonym l. melshin -- a series of essays life for the prisoners in siberia : `` v mire otverzjennych '' -lrb- `` in the world of the outcasts '' -rrb- , and `` pasynki zhizni '' -lrb- `` life 's stepchildren '' -rrb- .
according to an article on leon trotsky by david north -lrb- referring to yakubovich 's poems -rrb- `` his poems , which evoked the heroism and tragedy of the doomed struggle of the revolutionary terrorists against tsarism , made a deep moral impact upon the youth of the 1890s . ''
for a list of some of his other works , see the `` the lied and art song texts page '' on him
