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Events from the year 1879 in Russia.
Incumbents
[edit]Events
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April
[edit]- April 20 - Assassination attempt on Tsar Alexander II by Alexander Soloviev. Soloviev shot five times from his revolver but failed to hit Alexander II.
August
[edit]- August 15 - The revolutionary organization Land and Liberty split into the terrorist wing Narodnaya Volya and the political wing Black Repartition.
December
[edit]- December - The Narodynaya Volya group plans a train explosion, but fails to kill the Tsar.
Births
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- Leon Trotsky, Soviet statesman.
Deaths
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May
[edit]- May 28 - Alexander Soloviev, revolutionary who attempted to assassinate Tsar Alexander II
References
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Media related to 1879 in the Russian Empire at Wikimedia Commons