Nikolai Bobrikov’s murder in the Catalan Separatist Theatre.

The article analyses how Catalan separatism used the murder of the Russian Governor-General of Finland, Nikolai Bobrikov, in 1906 to establish a parallel between Finland/Catalonia and the Russian Empire/Spain, to transfer through a play an imaginary of combat against the Civil Government of Barcelona. The use of this episode of Finnish history through a play was part of Catalan nationalism’s continued will to find external models and to use relevant moments of other European nationalist movements to explain itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]