Vyacheslav von Plehve
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Vyacheslav Konstantinovich von Plehve was a Russian politician who served as the director of the police from 1881 to 1884 and later as the minister of the interior from 1902 until his assassination in
Vyacheslav von Plehve before 1904
Assassination of Mr. Plehve, Minister of Interior (Angelo Agostini, O Malho, 1904).
The assassination of Vyacheslav von Plehve, Le Patriote Illustré.
Scene of the assassination in Saint Petersburg on 15 July 1904
Yegor Sazonov
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Yegor Sergeyevich Sazonov or Sozonov was a Russian revolutionary and a member of the Terrorist Brigade or SR Combat Organization who threw the bomb that assassinated Russian Minister of the Interior V
Vyacheslav von Plehve
…succeeded. On 28 July 1904, Plehve was travelling on his way to his weekly audience with the Emperor. At Izmailovsky Prospekt in Saint Petersburg, Igor Sazonov, a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, threw a bomb into Plehve's horse-drawn carriage, killing him at the age of 58. Because Plehve carried…
Yegor Sazonov (undated)
Sazonov grew up in Ufa (here, in 1910), also site of his first exile (from the Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection at the Library of Congress)
Sazonov after his first arrest (1902)