The 1906 caption reads: ALEXANDER II. GUARDED IN THE STREETS OF ST. PETERSBURG.—Alexander II [1818-assassinated 1881], called the Czar Deliverer, freed the serfs and was perhaps the best friend liberty ever had in Russia. Yet it was in his time that Nihilism was most savagely rampant. Every day the Nihilists managed to have letters mysteriously conveyed to him, menacing him with his approaching murder. Several determined and bloody efforts were made against him. His train and then his palace were blown up. He had to ride through the streets of his capital as we see him here, his carriage dashi
The 1906 caption reads: ALEXANDER II. GUARDED IN THE STREETS OF ST. PETERSBURG.—Alexander II [1818-assassinated 1881], called the Czar Deliverer, freed the serfs and was perhaps the best friend liberty ever had in Russia. Yet it was in his time that Nihilism was most savagely rampant. Every day the Nihilists managed to have letters mysteriously conveyed to him, menacing him with his approaching murder. Several determined and bloody efforts were made against him. His train and then his palace were blown up. He had to ride through the streets of his capital as we see him here, his carriage dashing at a furious pace surrounded and guarded by a troop of his most reckless Cossacks.
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