Fyodor Trepov
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Feodor Feodorovich Trepov (Федор Федорович Трепов in Russian) (1812 - 1889) was a Russian government official.
Feodor Trepov began his military career in 1831 by participating in the suppression of an uprising in Poland in 1830-1831. He then commanded a cavalry regiment of gendarmes in Kiev. He distinguished himself during the suppression of another uprising in Poland in 1863-1864. After Dmitry Karakozov's assassination attempt on Alexander II in 1866, Trepov was appointed chief of Petersburg's police force. He managed to put the city in order and improved the performance of the police. In 1867, Trepov was promoted to the rank of adjutant general. В 1873-1878, he was appointed Governor of St.Petersburg. In 1878, Vera Zasulich shot and wounded Trepov after he ordered the flogging of a political prisoner.
Feodor Trepov survived the much publicized assassination attempt and soon retired in the rank of cavalry general.
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