Genre: Drama, Experimental
Plot: An active participant in the killing of Russian governors and ministers (including the 1904 assassination of Interior minister V. K. Plehve), Boris Savinkov (1879-1925) became a leader of the terrorist faction of Russia's Socialist-Revolutionary Party. Perceived as moderates next to the Bolshevik party—which campaigned for a Communist revolution—the Socialist-Revolutionaries were a key segment of a broad leftist coalition opposing the regime of Nicholas II, the last Russian Tzar, before the Bolshevik Party assumed power in 1917. THE RIDER NAMED DEATH is based on The Pale Horse, the 1909 novel by Boris Savinkov.Early twentieth-century Russia is shocked by a series of cold-blooded assassinations carried out by the notorious Combat Organization of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, a radical left-wing group that seeks political power by terrorizing high government officials. The group's fanatical and cynical mastermind is George, himself an assassin, a man willing to die for his delusional ideals. His accomplices are the bomb-maker Erne, who is passionately devoted to him, and bomb throwers Vanya, a romantic and naïve student, and Fyodor, a worker leading a miserable, joyless life. Their main objective is to assassinate Grand Duke Sergei Aleksandrovich, the Moscow governor
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