Dmitry Karakozov (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dmitry Vladimirovich Karakozov was the first Russian revolutionary to make an attempt on the life of a tsar. Karakozov was born in the family of a minor nobleman in Kostroma. He studied at the Kazan University from 1861 to 1864 and at the Moscow State University from 1864 to 1866. In early 1866, he became a member of the "revolutionary wing" of the Ishutin Society, founded by his cousin Nikolai Ishutin in Moscow in 1863. In the spring of 1866, Karakozov arrived in St.Petersburg to assassinate Alexander II. He circulated his hand-written proclamation called " -," in which he incited people to revolt