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Alexander II: The Last Great Czar. Freepress. ISBN 978-0743284264. "Church of the Savior on Blood, St. Petersburg". Sacred Destinations; Hartnett, L. (2001). "The Making of a Revolutionary Icon: Vera Nikolaevna Figner and the People's Will in the Wake of the Assassination of Tsar Aleksandr II". Canadian Slavonic Papers.
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Long-standing repressive policies and attitudes towards the Jews were intensified after the assassination of Tsar Alexander II on 13 March 1881. This event was wrongly [12] blamed on the Jews and sparked widespread anti-Jewish pogroms in the Russian Empire, which lasted for three years, from 27 April 1881 to 1884. [18]
The direct trigger for the pogrom in Kiev, as in other places, was the assassination of Tsar Alexander II on 1 March (13 March) 1881, for which the instigators blamed the Russian Jews. [5] Nevertheless, the Southern-Russian Workers' Union substantially contributed to the spread and continuation of violence by printing and mass distributing a ...
The death sentences invoked a reaction in Russia, and abroad. The French novelist Victor Hugo , who was particularly distressed by the prospect that two women were to be hanged, as had already happened to Perovskaya, wrote an impassioned letter to the new Tsar, Alexander III , pleading: "In the darkness, I cry for mercy."
Dmitry Vladimirovich Karakozov (Russian: Дми́трий Влади́мирович Карако́зов; 4 November [O.S. 23 October] 1840 – 15 September [O.S. 3 September] 1866) was a Russian political activist and the first revolutionary in the Russian Empire to make an attempt on the life of a tsar.
At his accession as the sole monarch of Russia in 1696, Peter held the same title as his father, Alexis: "Great Lord Tsar and Grand Prince, Autocrat of Great, Small and White Russia". [109] By 1710, he had styled himself as "Tsar and All-Russian Emperor", but it was not until 1721 that the imperial title became official. [109]
Contemporary newspaper reports suggest that Maria Pavlovna brought a large fortune to the marriage; as a Granddaughter of Tsar Alexander II, she was entitled to an annuity of 50,000 roubles prior to reaching the age of majority, and 100,000 roubles (approximately £10,500 in 1908) [16] per year thereafter . As a Russian Grand Duchess, she also ...