Background
Andrey Zhelyabov was born on 17 August in 1850 in Nikolaevka village, Ukraine.
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Andrey Ivanovich Zhelyabov
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After graduating from a gymnasium in Kerch in 1869, Zhelyabov got into a Law School of the Novorossiysky University in Odessa. He was expelled from the university for his participation in student unrests in October 1871 and sent away from Odessa.
Career
In 1873, Zhelyabov lived in a town of Gorodische (now Cherkas'ka oblast' of Ukraine) and maintained close ties with revolutionaries from Kiev and activists of the Ukrainian "Gromada".
After his return to Odessa, Zhelyabov became a member of the revolutionary Felix Volkhovsky group (the Odessa affiliate of “Chaikovtsi”) and conducted propaganda among workers and intelligentsia. He was arrested in late 1874 and then released on bail. Nevertheless, he continued his illegal activities. Zhelyabov was one of the suspects in the "Trial of the 193". After his acquittal in 1878, he moved to Podolsk province for the purpose of spreading revolutionary propaganda among peasantry.
Andrey Zhelyabov was striving for a coup in Russia with the goal of establishing a socialist system based on peasant communities and workers' cooperative associations. In June 1879 he participated in the work of the Lipetsk and Voronezh congresses "Land and Freedom", insisted on the need to fight the autocracy by preparing a conspiracy and political terror. Vigorously opposed the proposals of Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov to continue his propaganda work among the peasants. He was arrested in February 1881. After the regicide on March 1 in 1881 he was brought to trial by the ruling Senate and executed.
