Assassination of Alexander II of RussiaW
Assassination of Alexander II of Russia

The assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia took place on 13 March [1 March, Old Style], 1881 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Alexander II was killed while returning to the Winter Palace from Mikhailovsky Manège in a closed carriage.

Alexander BogdanovW
Alexander Bogdanov

Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov, born Alexander Malinovsky, was a Russian and later Soviet physician, philosopher, science fiction writer, and Bolshevik revolutionary.

Meir DizengoffW
Meir Dizengoff

Meir Dizengoff was a Zionist leader and politician and the founder and first mayor of Tel Aviv. Dizengoff's actions in Ottoman Palestine and the British Mandate for Palestine helped lead to the creation of the State of Israel. David Ben-Gurion declared Israeli independence in 1948 at Dizengoff's residence in Tel Aviv. Dizengoff House is now Israel's Independence Hall.

Lidija FignerW
Lidija Figner

Lidija Nikolaevna Figner (1853-1920), was a Russian revolutionary and a prominent member of the Narodniks. She was the sister of Vera Figner.

Vera FignerW
Vera Figner

Vera Nikolayevna Figner Filippova was a revolutionary political activist born in Kazan Governorate, Russian Empire, into a noble family of ethnic German and Russian descent.

Going to the PeopleW
Going to the People

Going to the People was a populist movement in the Russian Empire.

Mikhail GotsW
Mikhail Gots

Mikhail Rafailovich Gots (1866–1906) was a Russian revolutionary, member of 'The People's Will' and one of the founders of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party (PSR). He was the older brother of Avram Gots.

Hesya HelfmanW
Hesya Helfman

Hesya Mirovna (Meerovna) Helfman 1855, Mazyr — 1 February 1882, Saint Petersburg), was a Russian revolutionary member of Narodnaya Volya, who was implicated in the assassination of Tsar Alexander II.

Praskovya IvanovskayaW
Praskovya Ivanovskaya

Praskovya Ivanovskaya was a Russian revolutionary, was a member of both the Narodnaya Volya and Socialist-Revolutionary Party.

Stepan KhalturinW
Stepan Khalturin

Stepan Nikolayevich Khalturin was a Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya, and responsible for an attempted assassination of Alexander II of Russia.

Nikolai KibalchichW
Nikolai Kibalchich

Nikolai Ivanovich Kibalchich was a Russian revolutionary of Ukrainian-serbian origin who took part in the assassination of Tsar Alexander II as the main explosive expert for Narodnaya Volya, and was also a rocket pioneer. He was a distant cousin of revolutionary Victor Serge.

Viktor KurnatovskyW
Viktor Kurnatovsky

Victor Kurnatovsky graduated from the Zurich University and was an engineer by trade.

Aleksandr KvyatkovskyW
Aleksandr Kvyatkovsky

Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Kvyatkovsky was a Russian revolutionary and member of the Executive Committee of Narodnaya Volya.

Józef ŁukaszewiczW
Józef Łukaszewicz

Józef Łukaszewicz was a Polish physicist, geologist and mineralogist, as well as a 19th-century revolutionary. During his life he took part in a failed attempt to assassinate tsar Alexander III of Russia, served a lifetime sentence in Shlisselburg prison, was a professor at numerous universities, headed the Petersburg Institute of Geography and a chair in the Stefan Batory University of Wilno.

Aleksandr Martynov (Russian politician)W
Aleksandr Martynov (Russian politician)

Alexandr Martynov was a leading Menshevik politician before the Russian revolutions of 1917, and for a few years after the revolution a critic of the Soviet government's theory of permanent revolution (1923).

Mikhail FrolenkoW
Mikhail Frolenko

Mikhail Fedorovich Frolenko was a Russian revolutionary, populist, member of the Executive Committee of the People's Will.

Osip MinorW
Osip Minor

Osip Solomonovich Minor was a Russian revolutionary and member of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party.

Nikolai Alexandrovich MorozovW
Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov

Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov was a Russian revolutionary who spent about 25 years in prison before turning his attention to various fields of science.

Sophia PerovskayaW
Sophia Perovskaya

Sophia Lvovna Perovskaya was a Russian revolutionary and a member of the nihilist revolutionary organization Narodnaya Volya. She helped orchestrate the successful assassination of Alexander II of Russia, for which she was executed by hanging.

PervomartovtsyW
Pervomartovtsy

Pervomartovtsy were the Russian revolutionaries, members of Narodnaya Volya, planners and executors of the assassination of Alexander II of Russia and the attempted assassination of Alexander III of Russia.

Alexander PribylevW
Alexander Pribylev

Alexander Vasilievich Pribylev (1857–1936) was a Russian revolutionary, a member of the party "Narodnaya Volya", a member of the Party of Socialist Revolutionaries, a bacteriologist, a public figure.

Nikolai RysakovW
Nikolai Rysakov

Nikolai Ivanovich Rysakov was a Russian revolutionary and a member of Narodnaya Volya. He personally took part in the assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia. He threw a bomb that disabled the Tsar's carriage. A second bomb by an accomplice, Ignacy Hryniewiecki, killed the Tsar.

Nikolai SablinW
Nikolai Sablin

Nikolai Alekseyevich Sablin, was the son of a petty landowner, was born in 1849 or 1850. While at Moscow University he became involved in revolutionary politics as a member of the Narodnaya Volya or People's Will.

Lev SternbergW
Lev Sternberg

Lev (Chaim-Leib) Yakovlevich Sternberg was a Russian and Soviet ethnographer of Jewish origin who from 1889 to 1897 studied the Nivkhs (Gilyaks), Oroks, and Ainu on Sakhalin and in Siberia for the American Museum of Natural History, in New York City.

Constantin StereW
Constantin Stere

Constantin G. Stere or Constantin Sterea was a Romanian writer, jurist, politician, ideologue of the Poporanist trend, and, in March 1906, co-founder of the literary magazine Viața Românească. One of the central figures of the Bessarabian intelligentsia at the time, Stere was a key actor during the Union of Bessarabia with Romania in 1918, and is associated with its legacy.

Lev TikhomirovW
Lev Tikhomirov

Lev Alexandrovich Tikhomirov, originally a Russian revolutionary and one of the members of the Executive Committee of the Narodnaya Volya, following his disenchantment with violent revolution became one of the leading conservative thinkers in Russia. He authored several books on monarchism, Orthodoxy, and Russian political philosophy.

Aleksandr UlyanovW
Aleksandr Ulyanov

Aleksandr Ilyich Ulyanov was a Russian revolutionary and political activist. He was the elder brother of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union.

Feliks VolkhovskyW
Feliks Volkhovsky

Feliks Vadimovich Volkhovsky was a Russian revolutionary, journalist and writer. Volkhovsky became involved in radical student politics in St Petersburg in the 1860s. In 1867, he co-founded the 'One Rouble Society' with German Lopatin; it was dedicated to propaganda and educational work among the masses. After several arrests, Volkhovsky moved to Odessa in 1873, where he organised a circle affiliated with the Circle of Tchaikovsky. One of the members of Volkhovsky's Odessa group was Andrei Zhelyabov, later one of the principal organisers of the assassination of Tsar Alexander II.

Pyotr YakubovichW
Pyotr Yakubovich

Pyotr Filippovich Yakubovich was a Russian revolutionary, poet and member of Narodnaya Volya during the 1880s. He graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of Petersburg University (1882). After graduating, he entered the Petersburg Department of Narodnaya Volya. He was an organizer of the "Young People's Will Party" as well as its leader and ideologist.

Andrei ZhelyabovW
Andrei Zhelyabov

Andrei Ivanovich Zhelyabov was a Russian revolutionary and member of the Executive Committee of Narodnaya Volya.

Aaron ZundelevichW
Aaron Zundelevich

Aaron Isaakovich Zundelevich was a Jewish Russian revolutionary narodnik.