1. Leonid Joakimovich Kannegisser was a Russian poet and military cadet, known for assassinating Moisei Uritsky, chief of the Cheka in Petrograd, on 17 August 1918.
10 Facts About Leonid Kannegisser
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Leonid Kannegisser's father, Akim Kannegisser, was a mechanical engineer and the head of Russia's largest shipyards, the Black Sea Shipyard, and his mother was a doctor.
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Leonid Kannegisser studied economics from 1915 to 1917 at the Petrograd Polytechnic Institute and was a member of Popular Socialists, a moderate left-wing anti-bolshevik political party.
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On 17 August 1918 around nine o'clock, Leonid Kannegisser, wearing a leather jacket and an officers cap, turned up at the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, left his bicycle by the door and entered the building.
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Leonid Kannegisser threw away his bicycle and ran into the British embassy.
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Leonid Kannegisser left the embassy after having donned a longcoat, after which he opened fire on Red Guards but he was arrested.
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Leonid Kannegisser declared that he had acted alone and was executed shortly afterwards in Petrograd.
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Leonid Kannegisser was part of a clandestine anti-Bolshevik group led by his cousin, Maximilian Filonenko, who had close links with Boris Savinkov, who gave the order to assassinate Uritsky.
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From childhood Leonid Kannegisser had written poetry and was a friend of Sergei Yesenin.
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Leonid Kannegisser hosted in his house many literary meetings, where Marina Tsvetaeva, Osip Mandelshtam and others presented their poetry.