The assassination of Alexander II: the place outside the Winter Palace is strewn with corpses and debris of the bomb-explosion, while Alexander emerges alive from his coach. Process print (?).

Date:
[1881]
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42870i
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Alexander II (1818-1881), emperor of Russia (1855-1881). Inspired by his liberal education and by distress at the outcome of the Crimean war, which had demonstrated Russia's backwardness, he entered on a programme of domestic reforms, including emancipation of serfs in 1861. A period of repression after 1866 led to the resurgence of revolutionary terrorism and to Alexander's own assassination. In March 1881 he was mortally wounded by bombs in a plot sponsored by the "People's Will" movement

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[London] : [Illustrated London News], [1881]

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1 print : process print (?) ; image 23.8 x 33 cm

Lettering

Assassination of Alexander II: sketch showing exactly how the emperor was attacked Further lettering in the print describes the events and people involved in greater detail

Reference

Wellcome Collection 42870i

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