{{short description|Russian revolutionary and poet}} {{family name hatnote|Filippovich|Yakubovich|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | name = Pyotr Filippovich Yakubovich | native_name = Пётр Филиппович Якубович | native_name_lang = ru | image = Pyotr Yakubovich.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1860|11|3}} | birth_place = Isaevo, Valdaysky Uyezd, Novgorod Governorate, Russian Empire<br>(now Bologovsky District, Tver Oblast, Russian Federation) | death_date = {{death date and age|1911|3|30|1860|11|3}} | death_place = {{ill|Udelnaya, Saint Petersburg|lt=Udelnaya|ru|Удельная (исторический район)}}, Sankt-Peterburgsky Uyezd, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire<br>(now Vyborgsky District, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation) | resting_place = {{ill|Literator Bridges|ru|Литераторские мостки}}, Volkovo Cemetery, Saint Petersburg | citizenship = {{flag|Russian Empire}} }}
'''Pyotr Filippovich Yakubovich''' ({{langx|ru|Пётр Филиппович Якубович}}; {{OldStyleDate|November 3|1860|October 22}} – {{OldStyleDate|March 30|1911|March 17/}}) was a Russian revolutionary, poet and member of Narodnaya Volya (People's Will Party) during the 1880s.
==Biography== Pyotr Yakubovich was born on {{OldStyleDate|November 3|1860|October 22}} in landed property Isaevo, Valdaysky Uyezd, Novgorod Governorate, Russian Empire. From the nobility. His father, Philip Tarasovich Yakubovich (1817-1883), a retired captain, served as an officia.
He graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Petersburg University (1882). 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 served his sentence in the Kara katorga. In 1890 he was transferred to the Akatuy katorga. Since September 1895, he was at the settlement in Kurgan.
He published in 1895 — under the pseudonym '''L. Melshin''' — a series of essays life for the prisoners in Siberia: ''V Mire Otverzjennych'' (''In the World of the Outcasts''), and ''Pasynki zhizni'' (''Life's Stepchildren'').
In 1899 he received permission to live in Kazan, and in 1903 - in {{ill|Udelnaya, Saint Petersburg|lt=Udelnaya|ru|Удельная (исторический район)}}, Sankt-Peterburgsky Uyezd, Saint Petersburg Governorate.
According to an article on Leon Trotsky by David North (referring to Yakubovich's poems) "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."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/dec2009/serv-d15.shtml|title = Historians in the Service of the "Big Lie": An Examination of Professor Robert Service's Biography of Trotsky| date=15 December 2009 }}</ref>
For a list of some of his other works, see "The Lied and Art Song Texts Page" on him.<ref>[http://www.lieder.net/lieder/y/yakubovich/]{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *[http://www.encspb.ru/en/article.php?kod=2804023510 St Petersburg Encyclopaedia entry on Pyotr Yakubovich]
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