Sophia Perovskaya
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Sophia Lvovna Perovskaya was a Russian revolutionary and a member of the revolutionary organization Narodnaya Volya. She helped orchestrate the assassination of Alexander II of Russia, for which she w
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Sophia Perovskaya and her husband Andrei Zhelyabov at the Pervomartovtsy trial
The regicides at the foot of the gallows. Left to right: Rysakov, Zhelyabov, Perovskaya, Kibalchich, and Mikhailov.
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
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…a member of the executive committee of Narodnaya Volya. Zhelyabov was to have directed the bombing attack, with the group of four bomb-throwers – Ignacy Hryniewiecki, Nikolai Kibalchich, Timofey Mikhailov, and Nikolai Rysakov. However, when Zhelyabov was arrested two days prior to the attack, Perovskaya took the…
Hryniewiecki in an undated photograph
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Depiction of the assassination of Alexander II by an unknown author
Hryniewiecki's face after the assassination c. 1881