1907 Tiflis bank robbery

1907 Tiflis bank robbery

Jesse Russell Ronald Cohn

     

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ISBN: 978-5-5105-5148-8

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1907 Tiflis bank robbery, also known as the Yerevan Square expropriation, was an armed robbery by Bolshevik revolutionaries of a bank cash shipment in the Georgian city of Tiflis (now Georgia`s capital, Tbilisi). The robbery occurred on 26 June 1907 in Yerevan Square (now Freedom Square). The bank stagecoach was attacked while transporting money between the Post Office and the Tiflis branch of the State Bank of the Russian Empire. The robbers attacked the bank stagecoach and surrounding security forces using bombs and guns in the crowded city square resulting in the deaths of forty people and the injuring of fifty others, according to official archive documents. The robbers escaped the attack with 341,000 rubles (estimated as US $3.4 million in 2008) from the robbery.