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[1] [2] Over the subsequent year and a half, the various attempts on Alexander's life had ended in failure. The Committee then decided to assassinate Alexander II on his way back to the Winter Palace following his usual Sunday visit to the Mikhailovsky Manège. Andrei Zhelyabov was the chief organizer of the plot.
Stepan Nikolayevich Khalturin (Russian: Степан Николаевич Халтурин; 2 January [O.S. 21 December] 1857 [1] – 3 April [O.S. 22 March] 1882 [2]) was a Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya, and responsible for an attempted assassination of Alexander II of Russia.
The assassination of Alexander II, drawing by G. Broling, 1881. After the last assassination attempt in February 1880, Count Loris-Melikov was appointed the head of the Supreme Executive Commission and given extraordinary powers to fight the revolutionaries. Loris-Melikov's proposals called for some form of parliamentary body, and the Emperor ...
Assassination of Alexander II on March 13, 1881, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire Assassination of James A. Garfield on July 2, 1881, Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station , Washington D.C. , United States
List of Russian assassinations Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title List of Soviet and Russian assassinations .
Former President Donald Trump was the target of an assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally Saturday that set off panic as a bloodied Trump was surrounded by Secret Service and hurried into ...
Alexander Soloviev by an unknown artist, from Světozor (1879) Alexander Konstantinovich Soloviev (Russian: Александр Константинович Соловьев) (18 August 1846 – May 28, 1879), was a Russian revolutionary and former student who unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Tsar Alexander II of Russia .
Russia accused Ukraine of attacking the Kremlin with drones overnight in a failed attempt to kill Vladimir Putin, according to state-run news agencies.. The Kremlin said it considered the attack ...