Czar Alexander II, the ruler of Russia since 1855, is killed in the streets of St. Petersburg by a bomb thrown by a member of the revolutionary “People’s Will” group. The People’s Will, organized in 1879, employed terrorism and assassination in their attempt to overthrow Russia’s czarist autocracy. They murdered officials and made several attempts on the czar’s life before finally assassinating him on March 13, 1881.
As czar, Alexander did much to liberalize and modernize Russia, including the abolishment of serfdom in 1861. However, when his authority was challenged, he turned repressive, and he vehemently opposed movements for political reform. Ironically, on the very day he was killed, he signed a proclamation—the so-called Loris-Melikov constitution—that would have created two legislative commissions made up of indirectly elected representatives.
He was succeeded by his 36-year-old son, Alexander III, who rejected the Loris-Melikov constitution. Alexander II’s assassins were arrested and hanged, and the People’s Will was thoroughly suppressed. The peasant revolution advocated by the People’s Will was achieved by Vladimir Lenin’s Bolshevik revolutionaries in 1917.
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Czar Alexander II was Russia’s best hope. His assassination led to his incompetent son’s rule and the Bolshevik revolution, bloody civil war that caused millions of deaths in the country. Almost 75 years of terror and death.
Not to be condescending, but did it ever occur to you that that was the plan all along?
Of course it was. Alexander the Second was true a reformer, the wealthy want him gone for his son who believed in his own diety and right to exclusive rule. Even the Bolsheviks thought the revolution would be by the intelligencia, but it ended in a peasant revolution which was truly brutal, even to the peasants themselves.
If you want in depth history of Russia see:
http://www.renegadetribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Solzhenitsyn-200-Years-Together-Encrypted.pdf
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Natanson was born in 1850 in Švenčionys, Lithuania to a Lithuanian Jewish family but became a Russian revolutionary.