Narodnaya Volya was a late 19th-century revolutionary socialist political organization operating in the Russian Empire, which conducted assassinations of government officials in an attempt to overthrow the autocratic Tsarist system. The organization declared itself to be a populist movement that succeeded the Narodniks. Composed primarily of young revolutionary socialist intellectuals believing in the efficacy of direct action, Narodnaya Volya emerged in Autumn 1879 from the split of an earlier revolutionary organization called Zemlya i Volya. Predecessor groups had already started using the term "terror" positively and Narodnaya Volya in similar fashion self-identified as terrorists as part of a propaganda driven campaign to attract attention to their moral justifications for using political violence and their veneration of dead terrorists as "martyrs" and "heroes".
Aleksandr Ilyich Ulyanov was a Russian revolutionary and political activist. He was the elder brother of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union.
Pervomartovtsy were the Russian revolutionaries, members of Narodnaya Volya, planners and executors of the assassination of Alexander II of Russia and the attempted assassination of Alexander III of Russia.
Andrei Ivanovich Zhelyabov was a Russian revolutionary and member of the executive committee of Narodnaya Volya.
Pyotr Yakovlevich Shevyryov was a Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya.
Pakhomy Ivanovich Adreyushkin was a Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya, a secret terrorist organization meant to overthrow the Russian tsar.
Vasili Stepanovich Osipanov, Russian revolutionary and a member of Narodnaya Volya.
Józef Łukaszewicz was a Polish physicist, geologist and mineralogist, as well as a 19th-century revolutionary. During his life he took part in a failed attempt to assassinate tsar Alexander III of Russia, served a lifetime sentence in Shlisselburg prison, was a professor at numerous universities, headed the Petersburg Institute of Geography and a chair in the Stefan Batory University of Wilno.
Nadezhda Konstantinovna Sigida, née Malaxiano (1862–1889), was a Russian revolutionary, heroine of the Kara katorga tragedy of 1889.
The People's Union, formerly known as the Party of National Revival "People's Will", was a Russian nationalist political party founded in December 2001. It was led by veteran Russian nationalist politician Sergey Baburin. In December 2008, it finished its existence as a political party and was reorganized into the Russian All-People's Union.
The Russian All-People's Union is a Russian conservative political party formed in October 1991. In 2001, it merged into the People's Union. In 2008, it was reorganized when the Narodnaya Volya dissolved itself. Its leader is Sergey Baburin.
Andrei Lukic Kolegayev was a Left Socialist-Revolutionary and later Soviet statesman who advocated an alliance with the Bolsheviks.
Sergey Petrovich Degayev was a Russian revolutionary terrorist, Okhrana agent, and the murderer of inspector of secret police Georgy Sudeykin. After emigrating to the United States, Degayev took the name Alexander Pell and became a prominent American mathematician, the founder of school of Engineering at the University of South Dakota. The Dr. Alexander Pell scholarship is named in his honor.
Pyotr Filippovich Yakubovich was a Russian revolutionary, poet and member of Narodnaya Volya during the 1880s. He graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Petersburg University (1882). After graduating, he entered the Petersburg Department of Narodnaya Volya. He was an organizer of the "Young People's Will Party" as well as its leader and ideologist.
Svetlana Mikhailovna Kalinkina is a Belarusian journalist known for her critical reporting of President Alexander Lukashenko.
Egor Egorovich Lazarev was a Russian revolutionary, populist, member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, delegate of the Russian Constituent Assembly, Minister of Education for the Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly, and writer.
Alexander Ivanovich Barannikov was a Russian revolutionary and terrorist who was one of the leaders of the military wing of the Narodnaya Volya, the organisation that assassinated the Tsar Alexander II.
Aleksandr Dmitrievich Mikhailov was a leading Russian revolutionary, populist and one of the founders of Zemlya i Volya and Narodnaya Volya.
Pyotr Iosifovich Serebrennikov was a Russian Captain 1st rank and war hero of the Russo-Japanese War. He commanded the Russian battleship Borodino during the war but was killed during the Battle of Tsushima after the ship was sunk in the battle.
Pyotr Leontievich Antonov was a Ukrainian-Russian revolutionary and terrorist, who survived 20 years imprisonment.
