1879 in Russia

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Events from the year 1879 in Russia .

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander II ^[1]

Events

• Kharkov Mathematical Society is formed. ^[2]

April

• April 2 - Assassination attempt on Tsar Alexander II by Alexander Soloviev. Soloviev shot four times from his gun but failed to hit Alexander II. ^[1]

August

• August 15 - The revolutionary organization Land and Liberty split into the terrorist wing Narodnaya Volya and the political wing Black Repartition. ^[3]

December

• December - The Narodynaya Volya group sets off an explosion on a train, attempting to kill the Tsar, but misses his train. ^[4]

Births

• Leon Trotsky, Soviet statesman. ^{[5] [6]}

Deaths

May

• May 28 - Alexander Soloviev, revolutionary who attempted to assassinate Tsar Alexander II, was hanged ^[1]

References

1. Ulam, Adam B. (1998). Prophets and Conspirators in Prerevolutionary Russia (1st ed.). Routledge. p. 316. ISBN   9781351307888.
2. Ostrovskii, I. V. (December 1999). "Kharkov Mathematical Society" (PDF). European Mathematical Society Newsletter . 34: 26–27. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-28.
3. Yarmolinsky, Avrahm (2014) [1956]. "Land and Liberty". Road to Revolution: A Century of Russian Radicalism . Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. pp.  229–233. ISBN   978-0691610412. OCLC   890439998.
4. Lynn II, John A. (2019). Another Kind of War: The Nature and History of Terrorism. Yale University Press. p. 139. ISBN   978-0-300-18881-3.
5. Le Blanc, Paul (2020). "9: Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)". Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism (1st ed.). Routledge. ISBN   9781315149608.
6. Weisskopf, Michael (January 2006). "Leon Trotsky's Family Romance". Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas . 4 (1): 21–40. doi:10.1353/pan.0.0074. ISSN   1936-9247 – via Project MUSE.

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