Grigory Goldenberg was a Russia

Russia

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n revolutionary

Revolutionary

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 and member of the «Narodnaya Volya» (People's Will) organisation.

Revolutionary life

Born at Berdichev, son of a Jewish merchant

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, he moved to Minsk

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 where he became involved in revolutionary politics.

Goldenberg was arrested and exiled in 1878 to Arkhangelsk

Arkhangelsk

Arkhangelsk , formerly known as Archangel in English, is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It lies on both banks of the Northern Dvina River near its exit into the White Sea in the north of European Russia. The city spreads for over along the banks of the river...

 for his revolutionary activities. He escaped and joined Narodnaya Volya and assassinated Kharkov

Kharkov Governorate

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 Governor-General

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 Prince Dmitri Kropotkin (cousin of a famous anarchist

Peter Kropotkin

Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin was a Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, economist, geographer, author and one of the world's foremost anarcho-communists. Kropotkin advocated a communist society free from central government and based on voluntary associations between...

) in 1879. He was then arrested in November 1879, confessing his involvement and naming several other «Narodnaya Volya» members.

Goldenberg committed suicide in prison July 1880.