He was a Finnish nationalist and nobleman who assassinated the Governor-General Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov who was a Russian general and politician. Bobrikov was appointed by Tsar Nicholas II as the Governor-General of Finland. Bobrikov quickly became very unpopular and hated in Finland as he was an adamant supporter of the curtailing of the grand principality's extensive autonomy. Other activist groups are known to have planned an assassination but Schauman convinced them to give him two weeks before they would intervene. When Bobrikov came to the Senate house on June 16, Schauman shot him three times, and then himself twice in the chest, using a FN Browning M1900 pistol, with specially handloaded explosive bullets. Schauman died instantly. Two of the bullets that hit Bobrikov ricocheted off his decoration, but the third bounced back from his buckle and caused severe damage to his stomach. Bobrikov died the same night in the Helsinki surgical hospital. Schauman became something of a hero for the resistance to Imperial Russia and many Finns still consider him a hero
He was a Finnish nationalist and nobleman who assassinated the Governor-General Nikolai Ivanovich Bobrikov who was a Russian general and politician. Bobrikov was appointed by Tsar Nicholas II as the Governor-General of Finland. Bobrikov quickly became very unpopular and hated in Finland as he was an adamant supporter of the curtailing of the grand principality's extensive autonomy. Other activist groups are known to have planned an assassination but Schauman convinced them to give him two weeks before they would intervene. When Bobrikov came to the Senate house on June 16, Schauman shot him three times, and then himself twice in the chest, using a FN Browning M1900 pistol, with specially handloaded explosive bullets. Schauman died instantly. Two of the bullets that hit Bobrikov ricocheted off his decoration, but the third bounced back from his buckle and caused severe damage to his stomach. Bobrikov died the same night in the Helsinki surgical hospital. Schauman became something of a hero for the resistance to Imperial Russia and many Finns still consider him a hero
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