Georgy Sudeykin

Who was Georgy Sudeykin?

Georgy Porfiryevich Sudeykin was a Russian Gendarme colonel, the inspector of the Saint Petersburg Department for Protection of Communal Security and Order. He was killed by his own double agent, Sergey Degayev.

Sudeykin was born into a noble family. In the 1870s, after graduating from a Cadet school, he served in the Kiev Gendarme Directorate. In 1879, he exposed the entire Kiev branch of the Narodnaya Volya terrorist organization, and he was quickly promoted to the top of the Okhrana hierarchy. In 1881, he became the Head of the Secret Department of Saint Petersburg, responsible for coordination of all secret agents in the capital of the Russian Empire. In 1882, a special position of the Inspector of the Secret Police was created for Sudeykin. There, he supervised all the secret agents of Okhrana.

Sudeykin had managed to recruit one of the Narodnaya Volya leaders, Sergey Degayev, as his agent.