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Alexander Vikentyevich Butsevich (1849, Pskov - May 17, 1885, Shlisselburg) - revolutionar, lieutenant of the Russian Navy, head of the Military Organization of the People's Will Party.

Biography
He was Born in Pskov in the family of an official, collegiate adviser Vikentiy Butsevich and his wife Anna Artemyevna, in addition to Alexander there were six sisters in the family.

He graduated from the Marine School and the Marine Academy in St. Petersburg in 1872. Upon graduation from the Maritime Academy, he was assigned to the hydrographic department of the maritime ministry; in 1875 he was seconded to the Ministry of Railways and until 1879 was engaged in the description of the main rivers and lakes of Russia. In 1881 he was appointed senior assistant to the head of research on the port of Nikolaev. In the early 1880s, he graduated from the Institute of Communications. He served in the Ministry of Railways.

Political activity
In 1880, on the recommendation of N. Sukhanov, he was admitted to the Military Organization of the People's Will. In 1882 he was admitted to the Executive Committee. He was a supporter of the military uprising, developed a plan for the seizure of power by the military organization. Also participated in the organization of a dynamite workshop in St. Petersburg.

In June 5, 1882 he was arrested. He was found a large amount of illegal literature, as well as an appeal to the officers. Information about the revolutionary activities of Butsevich gave the secret police Degas. The arrested revolutionary was kept in the Trubetskoy bastion of the Peter and Paul Fortress. At the trial of 17 (March-April 1883), Alexander Butsevich was sentenced to death, replaced by life penal servitude. In April 1884, he was transferred to the Alekseevsky Ravelin of the Peter and Paul Fortress, and in August of the same year - to the Shlisselburg Fortress, where he died of tuberculosis on May 17, 1885.

Memory
The name of A. V. Butsevich is carved on a monument to revolutionaries who died in the fortress in 1884-1906.