The assassination of Alexander II of Russia in 1881 is depicted. A dozen years passed before the next attempt. On April 2, 1879, as the czar took his customary morning stroll, Alexander Solovyov ...

On March 13, 1881, revolutionaries assassinated Russian Tsar Alexander II. The terrorist organization Narodnaya Volya (People’s Will) hoped to spark a revolution by assassinating the monarch. Instead, ...

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the assassination of Tsar Alexander II. On 1st March 1881, the Russian Tsar, Alexander II, was travelling through the snow to the Winter Palace in St Petersburg.