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  Eugen Schauman - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Eugen Schauman (May 10, 1875 - June 16, 1904) was a Finnish nationalist who assassinated the Governor-General Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov.
Schauman worked as a clerk in the Senate.
Schauman left a letter in which he stated that he had killed Bobrikov for the crimes he had committed.
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  Eugen Schauman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eugen Schauman was born to Finland-Swedish parents Waldemar and Elin Maria Schauman in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
The grave of Eugen Schauman in the Porvoo cemetary
Schauman's body was taken to a nameless grave in the cemetery of Malmi in Helsinki.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Eugen Schauman
Eugen Schauman (born May 10, 1875 in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Russian Empire; died June 16, 1904 in Helsinki, Finland, Russian Empire) was a Finnish nationalist who assassinated the Governor-General Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov.
Eugen Schauman was born to Finland-Swedish parents Waldemar and Elin Maria Schauman in Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Schauman's body was taken to a nameless grave in the cemetery of Malmi in Helsinki.
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 Tyrannicide: Heroism or Terrorism. Part I: The Case of Eugen Schauman
Eugen Schauman, Junior Chief Accountant of the Supreme Board of Education and son of an esteemed Swedish-speaking Finnish family of civil servants, had been waiting for the general-governor's arrival at the window of upstairs, and now headed to descend the stairs, to meet the general-governor.
Schauman was almost unanimously seen as a martyr killed in fighting the enemy - which is understandable, as his suicide was a difficult ethical question for the often devotedly Protestant Activists.
Schauman's letter to the tsar provided a clear explanation of his crime, as well as connected it with the general concern towards the policies of the Russian Empire against the minorities.
www.cc.jyu.fi /~aphamala/pe/2004/cajeugen.htm   (2949 words)

  
 Eugen Schauman
The Finnish clerk was Eugen Schauman and the Russian tyrant was the governor general of the Grand Duchy of Finland, Nikolaj Ivanovits Bobrikov.
Eugen wanted to use the hunter’s organization as a means to train the youth in the use of rifles.
Eugen Schauman was a member of Nylands Nation, he was in fact elected as a member to the organizations’ sports committee.
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 New Page 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Eugen Schauman was originally buried by the Russians in an unmarked grave in Malm.
The re-burial took place on May 10, 1906, and was attended by hundreds of people, who showed their respect to Schauman.
Later that day there was a festive gathering at the grave when Nylands Nation, the student organization that Schauman belonged to showed their respects at the grave.
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 Universal Rule
I has now been a hundred years since Eugen Schauman assassinated the Governor-General Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov.
Bobrikov was both hated and feared by the Finnish population as he thought that Finland was still a foreign country that threatened Russia.
Schauman worked as a clerk in the Senate in Helsinki.
radio.weblogs.com /0112083/2004/06/18.html   (311 words)

  
 Helsingin Sanomat - International Edition - Home
Eugen Schauman, a civil servant, fired three shots at the Russian Governor-General Nikolai Bobrikov, and two at himself with his Browning pistol.
It was the best-known political murder in Finnish history, if you do not count that medieval incident on the ice of Lake Köyliönjärvi, where the English bishop Henrik was axed to death by the peasant farmer Lalli.
Bobrikov was the representative of Czar Nicholas II in Finland, and in practice, the ruler of the Grand Duchy of Finland.
www.hs.fi /english/article/1076153076611   (794 words)

  
 Gunwriters' Handloading Subsonic Cartridges, Part 2
Eugen Schauman developed them, or at least he gave information about low-noise loads with lead bullets and the "blue powder" by his letters to the activists all-round the Finland.
Eugen Schauman was able to give him reloading hints "from the mouse up to the moose", or from the mildest back-yard practice load up to the full-power charge with the strong smokeless powder.
Schauman warned, however, in his letter 12th Mar. 1903 Dr. Warén against use of the bluepowder as a propellant of ANY jacketed bullet in a 6.5 mm Mauser rifle.
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 The Murder
The Finnish clerk was Eugen Schauman and the Russian tyrant was the governor general of the Grand Duchy of Finland, Nikolaj Ivanovits Bobrikoff.
Eugen was born in the city of Harkov in Ukraine where his father was a military official.
Elin was 3 years younger than Eugen, but she had a brother who was Eugen's hunting partner.
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 Terrorism-groups-page-definition
The murder of the Russian General-Governor Nikolai Bobrikov by the Finnish activist Eugen Schauman was not an act of terrorism or even terror.
The difference is that Schauman did not seek agitating general fear by assassinating Bobrikov, although the murder was politically motivated; also, Bobrikov was not an "innocent civilian".[8] Meanwhile, the series of murders by, for instance, the IRA, ETA and PKK, targeting for example municipal clerks and school teachers — and especially the "owns", i.e.
A typical characteristic of terrorism is the extension of the logic and means of war to target civilian population.
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 In Memoriam
According to a familiar anecdote Sibelius celebrated Bobrikov's murder in Helsinki with such abandon that, along with Armas Järnefelt and Jost von Qvanten, he was taken to the police station in Eerikinkatu for questioning.
Sibelius said that he intended to write a requiem in memory of Eugen Schauman and that he had already started to work on it.
It may also have been connected with the planned Requiem for Eugen Schauman — or with the the Burial of Jesus episode in the oratorio Marjatta.
www.sibelius.fi /english/musiikki/ork_muita_inmemoriam.htm   (731 words)

  
 Eugen Schauman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
When Bobrikov came to the Senate on June 16 Schauman shot him three times and himself twice.
Schauman left a letter in which he that he had killed Bobrikov for the he had committed.
Viisi laukausta senaatissa: Eugen Schaumanin elämä ja teko
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 Sanasto
Eugen Schauman, education officialSergei Witte, Minister of FinanceViktor d´Hondt, Belgian mathematicianRobert Hermanson, Professor
Eugen Schauman shot Bobrikov to death, the Great Petition.
The Committee will study the government bill and other issues in detail and prepare a report as an outcome of its work to serve as the basis for discussion in the plenary session.
www.eduskunta.fi /historia/eng/tapahtuma_aika.htm   (793 words)

  
 Tyrannicide: Heroism or Terrorism. Part II: The Case of Claus von Stauffenberg
From a Finnish point of view, Stauffenberg's attempt to assassinate Hitler parallels the murder of General-Governor Nikolai Bobrikov by Eugen Schauman on June 16, 1904 [see the previous article].
Both the cases belong to the category of tyrannicide rather than terrorism, although some in Finland have recently claimed that Schauman was a terrorist.
The same theme of tyrannicide is also studied in Part I: The Case of Eugen Schauman.
www.cc.jyu.fi /~aphamala/pe/2004/cajstauf.htm   (1517 words)

  
 images   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
On the night before the assassination Eugen Schauman met his friends.
Schauman had said: "By then, I will already be dead".
Eugen Schauman had no way of knowing the final outcome of his act when he
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 Amazon.co.uk: eugen: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
for the Piano by Eugen Adalbert Woycke (Unknown Binding - 1879)
Hrvatski portreti: Petar Zrinski i Fran Krsto Frankopan ; Eugen Kvaternik ; Stjepan Radic ; Alojzije Stepinac ; Viktor Vida (Knjiznica Hrvatskrevije.
Eugen Schauman by Ingeborg M²ller (Unknown Binding - 1985)
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 Eugen Schauman - TheBestLinks.com - Finland, June 16, May 10, 1904, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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 List of assassins
Yolanda Saldivar - convicted for the murder of Selena Quintanilla
Eugen Schauman[?] - assassin of Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov[?]
Yuan Shikai - alleged mastermind behind assassination of Sung Chiao-jen
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 Encyclopedia: Eugen Schauman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
May 10 is the 130th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (131st in leap years).
Eugen Schauman - Definition of Eugen Schauman by Webster's Online Dictionary
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 Pertti Lassila: What makes a classic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
When, in 1904, the centenary of Runeberg’s birth was celebrated, Russian pressure meant that this was a politically uncertain and dramatic period.
A crisis developed when a Finnish student named Eugen Schauman, in the June of the same year, murdered the Russian governor general, Nikolai Ivanovitch Bobrikov, in Helsinki for political reasons.
Runeberg’s centenary year gathered the nation around the poet who, more than any other in Finland, was the symbol of love of the country.
dbgw.finlit.fi /fili/bff/104/lassila.html   (1415 words)

  
 Eugen Schauman - Enpsychlopedia
After the political situation eased up he was reburied in the Schauman family grave in the Porvoo cemetery.
Centennial article about the assassination in Helsingin Sanomat international edition June 15, 2004fi:Eugen Schauman
This page was last modified 14:34, 2 November 2005.
www.enpsychlopedia.com /psypsych/Eugen_Schauman   (471 words)

  
 Government Palace
The Imperial Alexander Pharmacy was also located in the Senate building before it moved to the building completed on the opposite side of Senate Square in 1832.
Finnish resistance to the policy of Russification at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries reached a dramatic climax on the second-floor landing of the main staircase in the Senate building in 1904 when Eugen Schauman fired the fatal bullets at Governor-General Nikolai Bobrikov.
A period of change began in 1917 with the fall of the Tsar in Russia.
www.vn.fi /tietoa-valtioneuvostosta/tilat/linna/en.jsp   (545 words)

  
 Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov Biography
In 1903 Bobrikov was given dictatorial powers by the Tsar so that he could fire government officals and abolish newspapers.
On June 16, 1904 Bobrikov was assassinated by Eugen Schauman.
Schaumann shot Bobrikov three times and himself twice.
www.biographybase.com /biography/Bobrikov_Nikolai_Ivanovich.html   (305 words)

  
 Toccata Music Shop - BIS 1485 - Seriously Sibelius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
There is, however, also a serious touch to the music on this disc, particularly the work which opens and closes it.
The funeral march In memoriam, which is here presented in both its first and final versions, was inspired by the death of Eugen Schauman, who committed suicide after having assassinated Nikolai Bobrikov, the Russian governor-general of Finland, in 1904.
The Two Serious Melodies, first published in versions for violin, are heard here in the cello versions that Sibelius made for a cellist friend, and which were used at the first performance of the pieces.
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 Eino Leino
Also both Russian censorship and self-censorship threatened free expression - Russification of Finlad had started under governor general Nicholas Bobrikov, who was shot to death by Eugen Schauman in 1904.
Later Leino planned to include Schauman in his collection of poems about great Finns.
When his marriage with Freya Schoultz and dreams of bourgeois life style neared an end in 1908, Leino went abroad and travelled in Berlin, Dresden, Münich, and Rome.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /eleino.htm   (1695 words)

  
 Sanoma.fi - History
In June 1904, a week after Governor General Bobrikoff had perished of the bullets shot by Eugen Schauman, Päivälehti wrote in its editorial how light will always overcome darkness at Midsummer.
This was a sufficient reason to suspend Päivälehti for ever.
The growth was dramatic especially in the first year of World War I.
www.sanoma.fi /history/1889-1917_4.html   (205 words)

  
 Helsinki.fi
Since then the exterior of the palace has not been changed.
The most dramatic event took place at the palace in 1904, when Finnish resistance to the policy of Russification around the turn of the century reached a climax with the assassination of Governor-General Nikolai Bobrikov by Eugen Schauman on the second-floor landing of the main staircase.
Tsarist rule came to an end in Russian in 1917, and Finland declared its independence on 6 December of that year.
www.virtualhelsinki.net /helsinkipanoraama/historia/eng/valtioneuvosto.html   (265 words)

  
 Eugen - Prinz Eugen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The German Heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen A Career Under Two Flags PART II by Erwin F. Sieche INTRODUCTION The first part of this article was published in the British quarterly magazine Warship, which ceased...
EUGEN SANDOW by R. Christian Anderson, Ph.D. The most famous physique champion 100 years ago, indeed perhaps the first modernbodybuilder was Eugen Sandow.
Prinz Eugen shown with German destroyers and Torpedo boats shelling Russian positions.
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 Minnesota Orchestra
The worst of these began in 1898, when Nicholas II appointed the ruthless General Nikolay Bobrikov governor general of Finland; five years later he also gave Bobrikov dictatorial powers.
In June 1904, Eugen Schauman assassinated Bobrikov, immediately taking his own life as well.
It is in Schauman’s memory that Sibelius composed In Memoriam.
www.carnegiehall.org /textSite/box_office/events/evt_6599.html   (3419 words)

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