Schmidt: in Astrakhan, Bataisk, Vinnytsia, Vologda, Vyazma, Berdiansk, Tver (boulevard), Vladivostok, Yeysk, Gatchina, Dnipro, Donetsk, Yegoryevsk, Kazan, Lysva, Murmansk, Babrujsk, Nizhniy Tagil, Novorossiysk, Odessa, Pervomaisk, Ochakiv, Samara, Sevastopol, Simferopol, Taganrog (unofficially the widest street in the world; its sides are situated on different sides of the bay), Tyumen, Kerch, Kropyvnytsky, Kremenchuk, Kamianets-Podilsky, Khabarovsk, Kharkiv, Liubotyn, Melitopol, Petropavlovsk. On 31 December 1922 the old (1899) torpedo boat Svirepy of the Sokol class was renamed Lieutenant Schmidt. It was decommissioned in 1927. In popular culture Boris Pasternak wrote a poem about him entitled “Lieutenant Schmidt”. There are two operas based on his life: the first was written in 1938 (composer NI Platonov), the second in 1970 (composer BL Yarovinsky, staged in 1970 by VM Sklyarenko at the Kharkov Opera House). The 1969 film ‘Postal novel’ depicts his complex relationship with Zinaida Riesberg, on the basis of their correspondence. He is played by Alexander Parra. In the classic film “We’ll Live Till Monday”, there is a long discussion about him in one of the final scenes, where one of the students claims that Schmidt’s sacrifice was foolish, only to have the teacher (played by Vyacheslav Tikhonov) counter that it is easy to say things like this with historical hindsight. He then launches into a detailed portrait of Schmidt’s accomplishments, and urges the children to read his correspondence with Zinaida Riesberg. See also Children of Lieutenant Schmidt References Encyclopedia of Taganrog, Taganrog, 2003, Second edition По старой Греческой by Oleg Gavryushkin, Taganrog, 2003 The Black Sea novel (1935) by Konstantin Paustovsky translated in Dutch De Zwarte Zee External links memorial stella in Berezan' 1867 births 1906 deaths Military personnel from Odesa People from Odessky Uyezd Russian and Soviet-German people Imperial Russian Navy personnel Russian revolutionaries People of the 1905 Russian Revolution Executed revolutionaries People executed by Russia by firing squad People executed by the Russian Empire Executed Russian people People executed for mutiny