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  2. Assassination of Alexander II of Russia - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Alexander II of Russia - Wikipedia

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    Alexander II, also known as the Grand Duke of Finland, was well regarded among the majority of Finns. [70] Statue of Alexander II at the Senate Square in Helsinki, Finland, flowered on 13 March 1899, the day of the commemoration of the emperor's death. Alexander II's death caused a great setback for the reform movement.

  4. Dmitry Karakozov - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Sophia Perovskaya - Wikipedia

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    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).

  6. Alexander II of Scotland - Wikipedia

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    Alexander II (Medieval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Uilliam; Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Uilleim; 24 August 1198 – 6 July 1249) was King of Alba from 1214 until his death.He concluded the Treaty of York (1237) which defined the boundary between England and Scotland, largely unchanged today.

  7. Murder of the Romanov family - Wikipedia

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    The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) were shot and bayoneted to death [2] [3] by Bolshevik revolutionaries under Yakov Yurovsky on the orders of the Ural Regional Soviet in Yekaterinburg on the night of 16–17 July 1918.

  8. Maria Feodorovna (Dagmar of Denmark) - Wikipedia

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    Maria Feodorovna kneels at the deathbed of Alexander II. Later rendering. On the morning of 13 March 1881, Maria's father-in-law Alexander II of Russia was killed by a bomb attack carried out by the revolutionary socialist political organization Narodnaya Volya on his way back to the Winter Palace from a military parade. His leg was blown to ...

  9. Pogroms in the Russian Empire - Wikipedia

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    The new Tsar Alexander III initially blamed revolutionaries and the Jews themselves for the riots and in May 1882 issued the May Laws, a series of harsh restrictions on Jews. [ citation needed ] The pogroms continued for more than three years and were thought to have benefited from at least the tacit support of the authorities, although there ...