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  RussianImperialSuccession
Travelling on the same train were Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich and his son Nikita Alexandrovich, and the former minister and chairman of the Imperial Government, A F. Trepov, presently the highest authority in the ranks of the monarchistic followers of Grarnd Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich.
Trepov also came to visit His Majesty but Trepov called him pointedly "Highness," so His Majesty was disinclined to talk with him.
Alexander Mikhailovich said that he was going directly to Villa Hvidor where the Empress and his family were living.
www.riuo.org /graf/excerpts.html   (3527 words)

  
  Vera Zasulich - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
In retaliation, Trepov ordered that Bogolyubov be flogged, which outraged not only revolutionaries, but also sympathetic intelligentsia.
Despite her previous record, she was against the terror campaign that would eventually lead to the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881.
The group commissioned Zasulich to translate a number of Karl Marx's works into Russian, which contributed to the growth of Marxist influence among Russian intellectuals in the 1880s and 1890s and was one of the factors that led to the creation of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) in 1898.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Vera_Zasulich   (794 words)

  
 PRINCIPAL FIGURES AND FAMILIES
Alexander II (1818-1881), Emperor and Tsar of Russia, 1855-1881.
Alexander III (1845-1894), son of Alexander II and Maria.
Maria (1853-1920), daughter of Alexander II and Maria, became Duchess of Edinburgh in 1874.
www.emich.edu /public/history/moss/names.htm   (806 words)

  
 Известия Науки - HISTORY: OLD RECIPES FOR MODERN COOKS: HUNDRED YEARS OF RUSSIAN POLITICKING
It’s a memorandum penned in September of 1905 by Dmitry Trepov, a Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Empire, for the attention of the Emperor Nicholas II.
Trepov was a Chief Police Officer in Moscow, a Governor General in St. Petersburg, a Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, and later a Palace Major.
Trepov was reportedly ready to relinquish a half of his land to peasants to avert a riot.
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Alexander was willing to make many concessions to the Poles; he established municipal councils at Warsaw and in other cities of Poland.
Alexander of Bulgaria, although he was inferior in numbers, encountered him at Slivnitsa on November 19, 1885, and completely defeated him.
Alexander died at Livadia in the Crimea, whither he had gone for the benefit of his health, on October 22, 1894, and was succeeded by his son Nicholas.
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 Judicial Reform Of Alexander Ii info here at en.my-widgets.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The judicial reform of Alexander II is predominantly writing single of the largest fruitful the largest unchanging (along with the assailing reform) of the reforms of Alexander II.
Besides, the reform was hindered by extrajudicial prosecution introduced on a widespread proportion bosom the reign of successors of Alexander II - Alexander III Nicholas II.
Alexander II introduced a unified two-level regularity which consisted of General judicial settlements (Общие судебные установления) Local judicial settlements (Местные судебные установления), where compensation (установление) stands for or office.
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 Populism in Russia -- Angela Hawkins
This paper will show that Alexander II’s Great Reforms shook the foundation of Russian society and explain how the intelligenty responded to the aftermath of those reforms by forming an ideological group which was true to the romantic belief in the peasant and communal life.
Alexander IIi launched an attack of revenge on the revolutionary movement in Russia when he began his reign in the evening of 1 March 1881.
Alexander IIi was convinced his father’s Great Reforms had been a colossal mistake, and Russia returned to autocratic paternalistic despotism under his rule.
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 PART TWO
Alexander liked to walk and he frequently and freely did so in the capital, sometimes accompanied by his daughter or one or more of his favorite dogs.
Alexander and Katia were usually both accompanied to the garden, he by an aide-de-camp and she by a maid.
Alexander and his good friends and advisers in the capital did not care for Muraviev, even though the Tsar thought that under the circumstances Muraviev's extreme tactics were unfortunately necessary.
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 Tony Cliff: Lenin 1 - Building the Party (Chap.1)
Alexander was reticent, introspective, “always meditating and sad.” He concealed his political ideas from everyone in the family, so that even his sister Anna, two years his senior, who was with him in Petersburg while he was involved in the assassination plot, knew nothing at all about his politics.
Alexander’s sense of revolutionary honour was sensitive to it, and, against his better knowledge, he yielded: No, he would not sit back, his arms folded.
Alexander’s tragedy was that he was a man of the transition in the period of transition.
www.marxists.org /archive/cliff/works/1975/lenin1/chap01.htm   (12983 words)

  
 Web Wiz/History/Modern History/Preliminary Units of work/Decline of the Romanovs
Trepov had ordered the flogging of an imprisoned student who had refused to salute him.
There were eighteen attempts on Alexander II's life before his actual assassination in 1881.
Most Russians were deeply shocked and outraged by the killing of their Tsar and the revolutionary movement was totally discredited as a result.
www.ssdec.nsw.edu.au /history/romanovs/opponents2.html   (1104 words)

  
 Nicholas II - At the Court of the Last Tsar - Chapter 1, Part 1, The Tsar
ALEXANDER III, son of Emperor Alexander II and of the Empress Marie Alexandrovna, Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt, was educated at home, as was the custom in his day, and did not attend any school.
The second element in the character of Alexander III on which it is necessary to say a few words was his passion for everything that was characteristically Russian.
Alexander III was ruthless even with his children, and loathed everything that savoured of 'weakness'.
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 Narodnichestvo (To the People Movement)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Alexander Herzen who operated from abroad--England mostly--made special appeals to the youth of Russia.
When Alexander Solovev attempted to assassinate Tsar Alexander II in 1879 without the consent of , it brought about a split in the organization.
Under the leadership of Zheliabov and Perovsky it concentrated on the murder of Alexander II.
mars.wnec.edu /~grempel/courses/russia/lectures/21narod.html   (2017 words)

  
 Maurice Paléologue. An Ambassador's Memoirs. 1925. Vol. III, Chapter IV.
Trepov, who certainly cannot be suspected of either fearing or humouring the Duma, has recognized the impossibility of governing with Protopopov who is betraying signs of mental disorder which become more obvious every day.
Trepov was very much touched, I think he was sincere, as he always liked France where he has spent much of his life.
Trepov and all the rest who are trying to bring the Russian nation back to the vision of Constantinople remind me of men who think they can reawaken the love of a woman by suggesting that they shall revive old memories together.
www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/memoir/FrAmbRus/pal3-04.htm   (5126 words)

  
 Year One of the Russian Revolution | Chpt. 1
Meanwhile, Trepov, the St Petersburg Chief of Police, had a student who was in prison beaten with sticks.
At his accession, the new Tsar, Alexander III, proclaims the autocracy to be `unshakable': the establishment of the Okhrana (` The Defensive') follows, a political police armed with extensive powers and funds.
Rambaud has remarked that under Alexander III `the fate of the Jews was rather like that inflicted on the Huguenots in France through the revocation of the Edict of Nantes'.
www.marxists.org /archive/serge/1930/year-one/ch01.htm   (11219 words)

  
 History Sings! | Theater | The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
Zasulich is imprisoned for handing out radical literature; during her two-year incarceration she witnesses a brutal beating of a fellow inmate by Dmitri Trepov, the governor general of St. Petersburg.
Upon her release, she shoots Trepov and is arrested for attempted murder.
After a passionate trial, she is acquitted and viewed as a folk hero; but as she lives in exile, her memory fades.
www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=10670   (690 words)

  
 Vera Zasulich
A member of the Land and Liberty group, when Zasulich heard that one of her fellow comrades, Alexei Bogoliubov, had been badly beaten in prison, she decided to seek revenge.
Now Trepov and his entourage were looking at me, their hands occupied by papers and things, and I decided to do it earlier than I had planned - to do it when Trepov stopped opposite my neighbour, before reaching me.
In the spring of 1879, the unexpected news of Alexander Soloviev's attempt on the life of the Tsar threw Geneva's Russian colony into turmoil.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RUSzasulich.htm   (935 words)

  
 Russia
The Russians, under General Alexander Samsonov and General Paul von Rennenkampf, fought against the German artillery and were beaten loosing half of their men.
On the other hand, Alexander Protopopov, vice-president of the Duma and friend of Rasputin, was appointed Minister of the Interior.
Nicholas was forced to dismissed Sturmer and his succesor, Alexander Trepov, was a zealous enemy of Rasputin.
www.geocities.com /jesusib/Russia.html   (1539 words)

  
 The Moscow News
Wounding Trepov, Zasulich faced a jury court and was fully acquitted.
1920: Admiral Alexander Kolchak, hero of the Russo-Japanese war, famous hydrologist and Arctic researcher, who became one of the leaders of the anti-Bolshevik movement and the "Supreme Ruler of Russia" during the Civil War, is shot on the orders of Bolshevik authorities in Irkutsk, Siberia.
1837: Alexander Pushkin, the famous Russian poet, meets French officer Georges d'Anthes in a duel on the outskirts of St. Petersburg.
english.mn.ru /english/issue.php?2005-4-32   (359 words)

  
 Use of military force in the fight against terrorism: legal aspects Military Thought - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: )
There had been no need before that to use the army might against separate persons or groups seeking to achieve their political goals by violence (or threat of violence) in respect of representatives of the state authorities.
Troops were not used even after March 1, 1881, when Emperor Alexander II of Russia was murdered, the police managing to crush Narodnaya Volya (The People' Will) organization all on its own.
Its fighting men made attempts on the life of Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich, Governor General Trepov, top-ranking officers of the Interior Ministry (1905), and Czar Nicholas II (1908).
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JAP/is_1_13/ai_n15394945   (847 words)

  
 Alexander II and Terrorism
• And the attempt on the life of Alexander II by Dmitrii Karakozov in 1866.
• Despite the reforms of the Alexander, the peasantry were not satisfied.
• While Alexander II introduced reforms concerning local government, the judicial proceedings, and in education.
www.esuhistoryprof.com /alexander_ii_and_terrorism.htm   (1830 words)

  
 The Voice of Russia [ XX CENTURY: FOOTPRINTS IN HISTORY ]
There were ample attempts to bully the powers that be into making certain political concessions in the 19th century and Russia is certainly no exception here, to say the least… Members of the People’s Power movement were among the most active terrorists and the shots fired by Vera Zasulich at the St.
Petersburg Governor-General Trepov, Emperor Alexander II’s assassination by the a group led by Andrei Zhelyabov and Sofya Perovskaya were the beginning of a long and blood-stained spate of terror attacks.
In 1934 an unnamed Croat in Marseilles shot and killed the Yugoslav King Alexander and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou.
www.vor.ru /English/Footprints/excl_next915_eng.html   (713 words)

  
 Maurice Paléologue. An Ambassador's Memoirs. 1925. Vol. III, Chapter II.
Trepov is as honest, intelligent and hard-working as energetic and patriotic.
Thereupon she lapsed into silence, with a face that was simply a mask, and mechanically holding to her lips the pearl pendant which hung from her neck.
Trepov received me at two o'clock in his room at the Ministry of Communications which looks out on the Yussupov gardens.
www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/memoir/FrAmbRus/pal3-02.htm   (10141 words)

  
 Historical Nihilism | CounterOrder.com
Thus, early in 1878 Vera Zasulich shot and wounded the military governor of St. Petersburg, General Theodore Trepov, who had ordered a political prisoner to be flogged; a jury failed to convict her, with the result that political cases were withdrawn from regular judicial procedure.
Members of the "Will of the People" believed that, because of the highly centralized nature of the Russian state, a few assassinations could do tremendous damage to the regime, as well as provide the requisite political instruction for the educated society and the masses.
They selected the emperor, Alexander II, as their chief target and condemned him to death.
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 GLOSSARY
Alexander Izvolsky - Russian prime minister, involved in Crisis of 1908
General Trepov - repressive prime minister after Mirsky was fired.
Potemkin - battleship that mutinied under Trepov’s repression and trained its guns on St. Petersburg.
www.cusd.chico.k12.ca.us /~bsilva/projects/russia/Nick_II/glossary.htm   (484 words)

  
 SAC 1904-1917
He was the last powerful "official reactionary" Interior Minister, the last gasp of the policy that dominated the reign of Alexander III in which the Great Reforms were to be rolled back toward some imagined pre-modern official Russian autocratic order based at the apex of a stable social/service hierarchy
After several decades of irresolution with respect to the legacy of Alexander II, the tsarist state was now forced at one moment to both quell vast disorder AND pick up the pace of reform.
Trepov, representing an older generation (though only 51 years old), died three months later, ending his year and a half near the center.
darkwing.uoregon.edu /~kimball/sac.1904.1917.htm   (11559 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The White Night of St. Petersburg: Books: Prince Michael of Greece,Franklin Philip   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This reimagination of the life story of one of the last of the czarist family's peripheral members has a heady provenance; the author is Prince Michael of Greece, a descendent of the Romanovs and a relative of most of Europe's remaining royalty.
As an adult, the dashing Nicholas romances an American courtesan and is suspected of having "socialist ideals"; to spare the royal family embarrassment, he's banished from Moscow under heavy guard, though house arrest doesn't prevent him from scandalously seducing a series of women.
One morning in July of 1998, all the Romanovs still living assembled in the lobby of the recently renovated Astoria Hotel in St. Petersburg.
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 SAC 1855-1903
Russian political exile Alexander Herzen published his influential journal of opinion and political news, Kolokol [The Bell] until his death.
<>1865ja11:Moscow noble (gentry) assembly addressed Alexander II with request that he complete the zemstvo reforms "by calling together a general assembly of elected representatives from the Russian land".
<>1866mr:Russian terrorist Dmitrii Karakozov tried to shoot Alexander II *--This was the second blow to civic activism and reform.
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 Russian Chronology, Oct-Dec.1905
Oct.22 > The rail strike reaches Kiev and Voronezh - Assistant Interior Minister Trepov is urging “the most drastic measures” to end the strike
Oct.28 > St. Petersburg bank, post and telegraph workers, ballet dancers, servants, janitors, cab drivers, and retail clerks strike - Trepov surrounds the University of St. Petersburg, forbids rallies, and threatens to clear the campus by force
Petersburg in an attempt to revive his labor union, but he is soon co-opted by Witte and breaks with left
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 Interactivist Info Exchange | Mike Davis, "The Heroes of Hell"   (Site not responding. Last check: )
January, Vera Zasulich wounds General Trepov, the sadistic jailer of
In April, Alexander Solovev makes his attempt on the
Alexander II's assassination by Peoples' Will in 1881.
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 NIHILISM - Online Information article about NIHILISM
In reality, whatever name we may apply to them, they were the extreme representatives of a curious moral awakening and an important intellectual movement among the Russian educated classes (see ALEXANDER II., of See also:
In material and moral progress Russia had remained behind the other See also:
generation during the early years of the reign of Alexander II.
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