Adjutant general Nikolay Vladimirovich Mezentsev (1876–1878) (24 dic 1875 anni – 7 feb 1878 anni)

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Mezentsov was active during the famous Trial of the 193, in which university students were threatened with treason charges for having committed "disobedience". Alexander the Second, considered by some to have been an enlightened monarch, gave light sentences, until Mezentsov, then Chief of State Police, suggested that they should be heavy sentences. The emporer changed the sentences to heavier ones, and in response, Mezentsov was assassinated in 1878 by Sergey Kravchinsky[1], a member of the revolutionary group Land and Liberty.[2][3]

In the rank of chief of gendarmes, Mezentsov in January 1878 proposed to launch counter-revolutionary propaganda in Russia, through a printed word among the common people, and in more educated layers through “circles with the aim of hindering the further development of revolutionary ideas” [4] . This project was rejected as unnecessarily bold, but Mezentsov’s proposed strengthening of the network of secret agents, introduced into revolutionary circles and accountable only to the Third Division, was supported and 400 thousand rubles were allocated for this purpose.

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