# General Trepov — Memoirs of a Revolutionist character guide

> General Trepov in Memoirs of a Revolutionist by Peter Kropotkin.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** General Trepov, Trepov

**First appearance:** 0041-ix

## Who they are

St. Petersburg police chief, target of an assassination attempt.

## In the story

### [Chapter IX: The Tsar and the Court](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/ix)

Mentioned as one who understood the art of knowing the Emperor's mood, and who reported a scandal involving a grand duke to the Tsar.

### [St. Petersburg in the 1870s: The Reign of Reaction](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/iv)

Chief of the St. Petersburg police, omnipotent and feared, who leaves a considerable fortune despite claiming to die poor; his flogging of a political prisoner provokes Véra Zasúlich's assassination attempt.

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/v)

Exploited the Karakozov affair alongside Shuvalov.

### [Part V: The Fortress; The Escape](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/part-v-the-fortress-the-escape)

Governor of St. Petersburg; orders harsh treatment of prisoners.

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/vii)

Chief of St. Petersburg police, flogged prisoner Bogolyubov, wounded by Zasulich.

### [The Struggle Intensifies](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_a_revolutionist_se/chapters/viii)

Implied as one of the functionaries targeted in the self-defense phase of the struggle, though not explicitly named in the excerpt.

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