The assassination of the detested Russian Governor-General of Finland, Nikolai Bobrikov by Eugen Schauman in June 1904. Schauman’s sister lived a long life — she was a talented painter and an art critic — and wrote a loving memoir of him, long out of print and only available in Swedish. One of the great ironies of Schauman’s rebellious, short life is that, while he is a Finnish national hero, his family spoke Swedish — and Russian, because his father, like Bobrikov, was an officer in the Imperial Russian Army.
The assassination of the detested Russian Governor-General of Finland, Nikolai Bobrikov by Eugen Schauman in June 1904. Schauman’s sister lived a long life — she was a talented painter and an art critic — and wrote a loving memoir of him, long out of print and only available in Swedish. One of the great ironies of Schauman’s rebellious, short life is that, while he is a Finnish national hero, his family spoke Swedish — and Russian, because his father, like Bobrikov, was an officer in the Imperial Russian Army.