1879 in Russia

Events from the year 1879 in Russia.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Alexander II

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.


 * Kharkov Mathematical Society

Births

 * Leon Trotsky, Soviet statesman.

May

 * May 28 - Alexander Soloviev, revolutionary who attempted to assassinate Tsar Alexander II