N. V. Mezentsev

Russian official

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In hunger strike: First hunger strikes and the Russian revolutionary movement
N.V. Mezentsev, to help end the strike. Reportedly, Mezentsev’s response was, “Let them die. I have already ordered coffins for them all.” Later that year he was rewarded for his callousness by being assassinated by a revolutionary dissident and former artillery officer, Sergius Kravchinskii.
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