Draft:Holy Brotherhood (Russia)

The Holy Brotherhood was a short-lived, semi-official, secret society formed in the aftermath of the Assassination of Alexander II of Russia tasked with protecting the Tsar. The idea for society came from future Prime Minister Sergei Witte and led by General Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov. The group engaged in counterterrorism which included guarding the Tsar, investigating revolutionary groups and plotting assassinations of political dissidents. The group was dissolved at the end of 1882 under pressure from the Police who said the group hampered their work.

Notable Members

 * Sergei Witte
 * Illarion Vorontsov-Dashkov
 * Pavel Andreyevich Shuvalov
 * Pavel Pavlovich Demidov
 * Pyotr Nikolayevich Durnovo
 * Pyotr Rachkovsky
 * Aleksandr Bezobrazov
 * Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Source

 * Gruzenberg, O. O., and Tatiana Tipton. Yesterday: Memoirs of a Russian-Jewish Lawyer. Edited by Don C. Rawson. 1st ed. University of California Press, 1981. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.2430423.
 * Klier, John D. “German Antisemitism and Russian Judeophobia in the 1880’s: Brothers and Strangers.” Jahrbücher Für Geschichte Osteuropas 37, no. 4 (1989): 524–40. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41052622.
 * Lukashevich, Stephen. “The Holy Brotherhood: 1881-1883.” American Slavic and East European Review 18, no. 4 (1959): 491–509. The Holy Brotherhood: 1881-1883.
 * Lukashevich, Stephen. “The Holy Brotherhood: 1881-1883.” American Slavic and East European Review 18, no. 4 (1959): 491–509. The Holy Brotherhood: 1881-1883.


 * P.I. Talerov (2001) P.A. Kropotkin targeted by the ‘holy brotherhood’, Revolutionary Russia, 14:2, 123-130, DOI: 10.1080/09546540108575742
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