People · Kyivans in history

Famous KyivansAdventurers and criminals

Princes and saints, poets and aviators, patrons and adventurers — people who were born, lived or worked in Kyiv. Biographies, addresses and places to visit.

56 people
11 categories
12 centuries (X–XXI c.)

Adventurers and criminals

2 people

Dmitry BogrovAssassin of Stolypin1887–1911A Kyivan anarchist who was also a secret-police informer. On 14 September 1911 he fatally shot Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin in the City Theatre (now the National Opera); hanged at Lysa Hora.
Vera CheberyakFigure in the Beilis case?–1919Keeper of a thieves’ den in Kyiv’s Lukianivka district, whom detectives and most historians linked to the 1911 murder of Andriy Yushchynsky – the crime pinned on Menahem Mendel Beilis.