Ignacy Hryniewiecki
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Ignacy Hryniewiecki or Ignaty Ioakhimovich Grinevitsky was a Polish-Belarusian member of the Russian revolutionary society Narodnaya Volya. He gained notoriety for participating in the bombing attack
Hryniewiecki in an undated photograph
Hryniewiecki
Depiction of the assassination of Alexander II by an unknown author
Hryniewiecki's face after the assassination c. 1881
On 13 March 1881, Alexander II, the Emperor of Russia, was assassinated in Saint Petersburg, Russia, while returning to the Winter Palace from Mikhailovsky Manège in a closed carriage. The assassinati
Ignacy Hryniewiecki
…Wounds sustained from a suicide attack Other names Kotik Mikhail Ivanovich Elnikov Education Saint Petersburg State Institute of Technology Known for Assassinating Alexander II of Russia Motive Overthrow the tsarist autocracy Accomplice Members of Narodnaya Volya Details Victims Alexander II of Russia fatally wounded and several others…
Painting of Alexander II on his deathbed by Konstantin Makovsky
Andrei Zhelyabov (tried and hanged)
Sophia Perovskaya (tried and hanged)