Alexander II of Russia
Born Apr 29, 1818

On March 13, 1881, members of the revolutionary group Narodnaya Volya, led by bomb thrower Ignacy Hryniewiecki, killed Tsar Alexander II along Saint Petersburg's Catherine Canal. The attack occurred on the very morning the tsar had approved the Loris-Melikov constitutional proposal, a major opening…

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