During this man's reign, Vera Zasulich, the failed assassin of Fyodor Trepov, was acquitted in a jury trial despite overwhelming evidence.
During this man's reign, Vera Zasulich, the failed assassin of Fyodor Trepov, was acquitted in a jury trial despite overwhelming evidence. While his wife Marie of Hesse was dying, this man kept Catherine Dolgorukov as a mistress. This man died shortly after signing into law the Dictatorship of the Heart proposed by his Interior Minister Count Loris-Melikov. After his father's death, this ruler signed the (*) Treaty of Paris that ended the Crimean War. He ordered his son, who was notably the first bearded ruler since Peter I, to be instructed by Constantin Pobedonostsev. His successor built the Church of the Saviour on the Spilt Blood, where a group that wanted reforms beyond the zemstvos bombed this man's carriage. For 10 points, name this Russian tsar assassinated by the People's Will sometime after he freed the serfs.
During this man's reign, Vera Zasulich, the failed assassin of Fyodor Trepov, was acquitted in a jury trial despite overwhelming evidence.
Alexander II of Russia [or Alexander the Liberator; or Aleksandr II Nikolaevich; or Aleksandr Osvoboditel]