Paul Gorguloff

Paul Gorguloff
Police mugshot of Gorguloff, 1932
Born
Pavel Timofeyevich Gorgulov

June 29, 1895
DiedSeptember 14, 1932 (aged 37)
Cause of deathExecution by guillotine
MovementFascism
Criminal statusExecuted
MotiveRevenge for France not providing more support for the White movement in the Russian Civil War
Conviction(s)Murder
Criminal penaltyDeath

Paul Gorguloff, originally Pavel Timofeyevich Gorgulov (Russian: Павел Тимофеевич Горгулов; June 29, 1895 – September 14, 1932), was a Russian émigré and assassin who shot and fatally wounded the French President Paul Doumer at a book fair at the Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild in Paris on May 6, 1932.