People of the Revolution and the USSR
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Andrei Ivanovich Zhelyabov Андрей Иванович Желябов
The Narodnaya Volya leader who organized the assassination of Alexander II and declared his party's creed to the court that condemned him
Political and party leadership · Narodnaya Volya
1851–1881
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Nikolai Ivanovich Kibalchich Николай Иванович Кибальчич
Narodnaya Volya's chief explosives expert who designed the bombs that killed Alexander II and sketched a manned rocket from his death cell
Social movements and organizing · Narodnaya Volya
1853–1881
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Sofia Lvovna Perovskaya Софья Львовна Перовская
Narodnaya Volya leader who directed the tsar's assassination with a white handkerchief; first woman executed for a political crime in Russia
Social movements and organizing · Narodnaya Volya
1853–1881
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Alexander Ilyich Ulyanov Александр Ильич Ульянов
Lenin's elder brother: a gold-medal zoologist who turned from studying worms to building bombs for the assassination of Alexander III
Social movements and organizing · Narodnaya Volya
1866–1887
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Stepan Nikolayevich Khalturin Степан Николаевич Халтурин
The carpenter-revolutionary who bombed the Winter Palace and founded Russia's first political workers' organization
Social movements and organizing · Narodnaya Volya
1856/1857–1882