murdered by Krylenko's Bolshevik military escort near the railway station on 3 December 1917. A mob of soldiers and sailors bayoneted him to death on the spot on order of Red Army officer Pavel Dybenko. The next morning the Bolshevik soldiers and sailors amused themselves by using his (now stripped naked) corpse for target practice, which they had placed on the platform with a cigarette in its mouth. His family emigrated to Yugoslavia. References External links Short biography 1876 births 1917 deaths People from Smolensky District, Smolensk Oblast People from Smolensky Uyezd Commanders-in-chief of the Russian Army Imperial Russian Army generals Russian Provisional Government generals Recipients of the Order of Saint Stanislaus (Russian) Recipients of the Order of St. George of the Third Degree Executed people from Smolensk Oblast People murdered in Belarus Victims of Red Terror in Soviet Russia Russian murder victims People executed by stabbing 1917 murders in Europe