Ivan Yuvachev
| Ivan Yuvachev | |
|---|---|
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Ivan Yuvachev after 1900 | |
| Born |
Ivan Pavlovich Yuachev 1860 Russia |
| Died |
1940 (aged 79–80) Russia |
| Occupation | Revolutionary, writer |
| Known for | Member of The People's Will |
| Children | Daniil Kharms |
Ivan Pavlovich Yuvachev (1860–1940) was a narodovolets, i.e., a member of The People's Will (Narodnaya Volya) revolutionary organization that assassinated Tsar Alexander II, after seven failed assassination attempts.[1] He was a defendant at the Trial of the Fourteen in 1884, where he was found guilty of "terrorist activities".[1]
Yuvachev served four years at Peter and Paul Fortress on the Neva River, and at the Schlusselburg Fortress.[1] He was imprisoned with fellow narodovolets Alexander Ulyanov, brother of Vladimir Lenin, who was hanged there. In this period he experienced a religious awakening, or perhaps a mental breakdown.[1] Rejecting an offer to be released to a monastery, Yuvachev served eight additional years of hard labor on the Sakhalin peninsula.[1] Anton Chekhov came to know Yuvachev well in this period, and later wrote about Yuvachev in a text recalling his time at Sakhalin.[2] Yuvachev emerged from prison a vocal pacifist, and he authored two memoirs and several religious-mystical tracts.[1]
Yuvachev is the father of Russian poet Daniil Kharms. A popular account of Kharm's birth has Yuvachev predicting the precise day of his son's birth in advance, and, from a telephone on Leo Tolstoy's estate, ordering his wife to adhere to the date.[1] She gave birth to her son on the date named by Yuvachev.