1879 in Russia
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Events from the year 1879 in Russia.
Incumbents
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
- ^ a b c Ulam, Adam B. (1998). Prophets and Conspirators in Prerevolutionary Russia (1st ed.). Routledge. p. 316. ISBN 9781351307888.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Le Blanc, Paul (2020). "9: Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)". Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism (1st ed.). Routledge. ISBN 9781315149608.
- ^ 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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