Grigory Gershuni

Gregory A. Gershuni
Born	September 29 [O.S. September 17] 1870 Kaunas, Russian Empire
Died	March 29 [O.S. March 16] 1908 Zurich, Switzerland

Grigory Andreyevich Gershuni (Russian: Григорий Андреевич Гершуни; September 29 [O.S. September 17] 1870 – March 29 [O.S. March 16] 1908) was a Jewish revolutionary and one of the founders of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party.

Gershuni was born in Kaunas, Russian Empire, to a petty bourgeois family of Lithuanian Jews. At the age of three his family moved to Šiauliai. At fifteen his uncle took him as an apprentice pharmacist and Gershuni traveled across Russia, including areas outside of the Pale of Settlement. In 1895 he began his pharmacy studies at Kiev University and became involved in student activities, for which he was briefly arrested. After graduation in 1897, he opened his own chemical-bacteriological laboratory in Minsk.

In 1898, his parents were killed in a pogrom.

Gershuni was a socialist and a founding member of the Workers' Party for the Political Liberation of Russia. This led to his arrest in 1900 by the Okhrana (secret police). After his release he joined with fellow revolutionaries including Catherine Breshkovsky, Victor Chernov, Alexander Kerensky and Yevno Azef to establish the Socialist-Revolutionary Party in 1901. Gershuni also founded the SR Combat Organization in 1902, which planned and executed the assassination of Dmitry Sipyagin, the Minister of Interior, in April 1902 and of N. M. Bogdanovich, the Governor of Ufa, in May 1903. They failed to assassinate Prince Ivan Mikhailovich Obolensky, the Governor of Kharkov, in July 1902.

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