Martin Antonenko
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Death of a Tsar...
When the Russian Tsar Aleksandr II and an escort team left the Mikhailovsky Palace in a carriage on March 13, 1881, after only a few meters near the St. Petersburg Griboyedov Canal, it was hit by a can filled with dynamite.
The Tsar survived the explosion completely unharmed, but several soldiers of his escort and bystanders died or were injured.
Instead of letting his carriage go on as quickly as possible to get to safety, the tsar gets out ...
... to check on the injured and to speak to the overwhelmed assassin, a student named Nikolay Ryssakov ...:
When an escort officer asked how he was, the tsar replied: "Thank God, I am unharmed."
At that moment one of the bystanders, another student named Nikolai Grinevitsky, shouts ...
“It is too early to thank God!” And throws a second bomb at the Tsar's feet from a very short distance ...
Grinevitsky is dead on the spot, Aleksandr II is thrown to the ground seriously injured, both legs are almost torn off by the explosion ...:
Aleksandr II also orders: “Go home - die!” Then the tsar loses consciousness.
The doctors, unable to stop the bleeding, found the tsar dead two hours later.
His then twelve-year-old grandson...
... who later became Tsar Nicholas II, witnessed the bloodshed carried out by the anarchist underground organization “Narodnaja Wolja” (= “People's Will”).
At the site of the assassination, the new Tsar Alexander III.
... build the Resurrection Cathedral "On the Blood", today one of the tourist attractions of Saint Petersburg ...:
Other people were also involved in the preparation and execution of the attack:
N. I. Kybaltytsch…:
T. M. Michailow…
... and Sophia Perowskaya, who gave the attackers the signal that the tsar's carriage was approaching ...:
Kybaltitsch, Mikhailov and Perovskaya were caught a little later and shortly afterwards - together with Ryssakov - executed.
When the Russian Tsar Aleksandr II and an escort team left the Mikhailovsky Palace in a carriage on March 13, 1881, after only a few meters near the St. Petersburg Griboyedov Canal, it was hit by a can filled with dynamite.
The Tsar survived the explosion completely unharmed, but several soldiers of his escort and bystanders died or were injured.
Instead of letting his carriage go on as quickly as possible to get to safety, the tsar gets out ...
... to check on the injured and to speak to the overwhelmed assassin, a student named Nikolay Ryssakov ...:
When an escort officer asked how he was, the tsar replied: "Thank God, I am unharmed."
At that moment one of the bystanders, another student named Nikolai Grinevitsky, shouts ...
“It is too early to thank God!” And throws a second bomb at the Tsar's feet from a very short distance ...
Grinevitsky is dead on the spot, Aleksandr II is thrown to the ground seriously injured, both legs are almost torn off by the explosion ...:
Aleksandr II also orders: “Go home - die!” Then the tsar loses consciousness.
The doctors, unable to stop the bleeding, found the tsar dead two hours later.
His then twelve-year-old grandson...
... who later became Tsar Nicholas II, witnessed the bloodshed carried out by the anarchist underground organization “Narodnaja Wolja” (= “People's Will”).
At the site of the assassination, the new Tsar Alexander III.
... build the Resurrection Cathedral "On the Blood", today one of the tourist attractions of Saint Petersburg ...:
Other people were also involved in the preparation and execution of the attack:
N. I. Kybaltytsch…:
T. M. Michailow…
... and Sophia Perowskaya, who gave the attackers the signal that the tsar's carriage was approaching ...:
Kybaltitsch, Mikhailov and Perovskaya were caught a little later and shortly afterwards - together with Ryssakov - executed.
