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Events from the year 1879 in Russia.
Incumbents
Events
April
- 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
- August 15 - The revolutionary organization Land and Liberty split into the terrorist wing Narodnaya Volya and the political wing Black Repartition.
December
- December - The Narodynaya Volya group plans a train explosion, but fails to kill the Tsar.
Births
- Leon Trotsky, Soviet statesman.
Deaths
May
- May 28 - Alexander Soloviev, revolutionary who attempted to assassinate Tsar Alexander II
References
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