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On 25–26 August 1879, on the anniversary of his coronation, the 22-member Executive Committee of Narodnaya Volya resolved to assassinate Alexander II in the hopes that it would precipitate a revolution. [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 ...
^ For an analysis of the public perception of the assassination attempt and Komissarov's actions, see Richard S. Wortman. Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy: Volume Two: From Alexander II to the Abdication of Nicholas II , Princeton University Press, 2004; ISBN 0-691-02947-4 , pp. 110–13
The first failed attempt on the Tsar's life, by the nihilist Dmitry Karakozov on April 4, 1866, led Prince Dolgorukov, the head of the section, to resign out of shame for his and the Section's failure to protect Alexander II. [15] There was a second attempt on Alexander II's life in Paris in 1867, but it was not until the third attempt, this ...
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.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was shot and wounded on Wednesday, becoming the latest European leader to be the target of an assassination attempt. While assassination attempts on leaders in ...
Sophia Perovskaya and her husband Andrei Zhelyabov at the Pervomartovtsy trial. Perovskaya participated in preparing assassination attempts on Alexander II of Russia near Moscow (November 1879), in Odessa (spring of 1880), and Saint Petersburg (the attempt that eventually killed him, 1 March 1881).
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.
Four out of 45 US presidents have been assassinated over the course of American history. But many more chief executives escaped assassination attempts thanks to heroic bystanders, diligent guards ...