Vladimir managed to inform the Executive Committee of Narodnaya Volya about the offer. He was interrogated by Sudeykin, who offered Vladimir freedom in exchange for collaboration with the Okhrana. Īround November 1881 Vladimir, the younger brother of Degayev, was arrested for his participation in the Narodnaya Volya movement. He was proud of his successes in recruiting his agents among the revolutionaries claiming that every member of an anti-government movement is either corrupt or naive: the corrupt can always be recruited by promise of money or by threats while the naive can always be recruited by appeal to their idealism. Sudeykin was an avid supporter of using agent provocateurs inside the revolutionary movements not only to catch the active members but also to instigate quarrels and disputes, spread false rumours, and transmit the opinion that all the leading revolutionaries were spies or provocateurs. There he met Lyubov Ivanova, a young woman who shared his political views he fell in love and married her on their trip to Saint Petersburg in November 1881. Īfter graduating Degayev obtained an engineering position in Arkhangelsk. Degayev was among those arrested in connection with the assassination, but his guilt was not proven he returned to his institute and received his degree in June 1881. Some sources also suggest that Degayev had a role in the successful assassination of the tsar on 1 March 1881 and even observed the explosion that killed him. Degayev took an active part in an unsuccessful assassination attempt by digging and mining a tunnel under Malaya Sadovaya Street in Saint Petersburg. After the 1879 Lipetsk Congress of Narodnaya Volya, which 'sentenced' tsar Alexander II to death, most of the organization's resources were directed to the tsar's assassination. During his studies, he became acquainted with Andrei Zhelyabov and members of his circle and in 1880, he became a full-fledged member of Narodnaya Volya, a revolutionary organization that turned to terrorist methods. ĭegayev was enrolled to the Saint Petersburg Institute for Rail Road Engineering in 1880. He briefly served as a military officer and was discharged from the Army with the rank of Staff captain in the same year. The accusations were never proven, but in 1879, Degayev was nevertheless expelled from the Academia. He was accused of organizing anti-government underground 'circles' in Saint Petersburg and Kronstadt. After graduation, Sergey entered the Mikhailovskaya Artillery Academy in Saint Petersburg. Military officer, student and engineer Īt the age of nine, Sergey entered a Moscow Cadet school. As the oldest son, Sergey had to provide financial support for the family. Vladimir was also deeply involved with Narodnaya Volya. Both sisters were involved in the Narodnaya Volya revolutionary movement. Natalie was a musician, while Elizabeth was a poet. While Marie was much older than Sergey, married early and did not play a large role in the life of the family, Nathalie (after marriage Makletsova) and Elizabeth (Liz) were very close to him. ĭegayev had three sisters-Marie, Nathalie, and Elizabeth-and a brother Vladimir, who was seven years his junior. When the court sentenced pregnant revolutionary Hesya Helfman to death, she tried, unsuccessfully, to adopt the baby, despite a possible conflict with the authorities. His father died in the 1860s, and Degayev's mother became the head of the family she was, for her time, a well-educated woman, whose interests included reading and learning foreign languages. His maternal grandfather was a prominent Russian writer, Nikolai Polevoy. Sergey Degayev was born in Moscow to the family of a military physician, state counsellor Peter Degayev. Russian revolutionary and Okhrana agent Family 1.4 Leader of Narodnaya Volya and Okhrana Agent.1.3 Georgy Sudeykin and Vladimir Degayev.1.2 Military officer, student and engineer.

1 Russian revolutionary and Okhrana agent.

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