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It was to be the People’s Will’s most daring act yet. A bomb attack inside the Winter Palace itself. The People’s Will was an extremist revolutionary group active during the reign of Tsar Alexander II. Advocating acts of violence and terror, they sentenced the tsar, whom they considered a criminal, to death. Their manifesto of regicide was based on the belief that the tsar’s death would bring about the end of tsarism. The idea took hold of the popular imagination.
One of those inspired by it was a young workman called Stepan Khalturin.
Khalturin’s carpentry skills were much in demand in St Petersburg during the late 1870s. When he got a job repairing the tsar’s yacht, an opportunity presented itself to him. Such was his standard of craftsmanship that he caught the eye of palace administrators. Would he be interested in joining the maintenance team at the Winter Palace? they wondered.
It was at this point that Khalturin made himself known to key figures in the People’s Will.
The terrorists were already planning a major operation, which involved dynamiting the tsar’s train. They didn’t have the resources to commit to Khalturin’s plan at present, but the prospect of a potential assassin inside the Winter Palace was too good to resist. They told him to take the job and wait fo
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Czar Alexander II assassinated in St. Petersburg
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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