Paramé (Ille-et-Vilaine) - Grand Hotel. And the Assassination of a Prime Minister.

            The Postcard

A carte postale published by E.D. which was posted in Streatham, London on Thursday the 14th. September 1911 to a recipient who lived in Agincourt Street Monmouth.

The two women have been specially positioned for the photograph.

Paramé

Paramé is a former town and commune of France on the north coast of Brittany. 

Paramé merged with Saint-Servan to form the commune of Saint-Malo in 1967. Paramé is now a district of Saint-Malo and its seaside resort. The town is known for its long sandy beach and its sea spa.

The Assassination of the Russian Prime Minister

So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?

Well, on the 14th. September 1911, Pyotr Stolypin, the Prime Minister of Russia, was assassinated. 

The Assassination

Stolypin traveled to Kiev despite police warnings that an assassination plot was afoot, as there had already been 10 attempts to kill him. On the 14th. September 1911, there was a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's The Tale of Tsar Saltan at the Kiev Opera House in the presence of the Tsar and his two oldest daughters, the Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana. 

The theater was occupied by 90 men posted as interior guards. After the second act, Stolypin was standing in front of the ramp separating the parterre from the orchestra, with his back to the stage. On his right were Baron Freedericks and General Sukhomlinov. 

His personal bodyguard had stepped out to smoke. Stolypin was shot twice, once in the arm and once in the chest, by Dmitry Bogrov, a Jewish leftist revolutionary. Bogrov ran to one of the entrances and was caught. 

Stolypin rose from his chair, removed his gloves and unbuttoned his jacket, exposing a blood-soaked waistcoat. He gave a gesture to tell the Tsar to go back, and made the sign of the cross. He never lost consciousness, but his condition deteriorated, and he died four days later. On his request, Stolypin was laid to rest in the city where he was murdered.

The Execution

24 year-old Bogrov was hanged 10 days after the assassination in the Kiev fortress Lyssa Hora.. The judicial investigation was halted by order of the Tsar, giving rise to suggestions that the assassination was planned not by leftists, but by conservative monarchists who were afraid of Stolypin's reforms and his influence on the Tsar. However, this has never been proven. 

Stolypin's widow had campaigned in vain to spare the assassin's young life. According to Egor Lazarev, Bogrov claimed to have committed the assassination in revenge for the antisemitism of the Russian Empire which he personally endured. 

However, his true motives for the assassination remain disputed, as he was both a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party and an informant for the Okhrana (secret police force).

Taken on: November 24, 2013

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