In the documentary materials of the Poltava provincial gendarmerie department in the case of the uprising of soldiers of the city of Kremenchuk in October 1916, there is a verdict of the military field court, which states that the military field court from November 1 to 3, 1916, in a closed court session, considered the case of a private of the 6th Finnish Rifle Regiment Ivan Yermolayovych TSISYA, 28 years old, on charges that… “On October 25 of this year, during the war in the city of Kremenchuk, being in a crowd of several hundred lower ranks who had gathered by themselves, left his barracks to commit riots in the city, wanting, among other lower ranks, to forcefully wrest from the commander an order to satisfy their demands:
to release the arrested that day and in general from the guardhouses,
allow free exit to the city,
not to take them with an escort and not to keep them under surveillance,
send policemen and guards to positions and assign twice or thrice wounded to their places,
send them to positions faster,
grant leave, etc.
Then and there, having reached Zengin’s store and breaking its outer windows, forcibly breaking inside it with the aim of stealing the shoes that were there, and when the troops appeared to suppress the riots, having a rifle stolen somewhere, with a bayonet tried to disarm private Besykala of the convoy team, receiving a head wound from him with a saber, as a result of which he was sent to the Kremenchuk military hospital.
The military field court sentenced Ivan Yermolayovych TsYSYA to deprivation of military rank and all rights of the estate and the death penalty because shooting.
The sentence was carried out on the night of November 3-4, 1916.
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