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What ultimately happened to Ignacy Hryniewiecki, the Narodnaya Volya member who threw the fatal bomb at Tsar Alexander II in 1881?
Answer
He was mortally wounded by the blast of his own bomb
Hryniewiecki's second bomb, thrown at close range in St. Petersburg, killed the tsar but also fatally wounded Hryniewiecki himself; he died from his injuries the same day.
💡 Did you know?
Tsar Alexander II's assassin, Ignacy Hryniewiecki, was killed by his own bomb's blast; the tsar died beside him. Both were carried to the same hospital mortally wounded.
Other options people guess
- He fled the scene and was never identified
- He was captured and hanged after a public trial
- He was arrested and exiled to Siberia
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- russia
- assassination
- 19th-century
- revolutionaries
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