Russian Revolution · TURNING POINT · 1881

Assassination of Alexander II (1881)

On the Russian Revolution map as “The Catherine Canal”

1/13 Mar 1881 — Alexander II is returning from the Sunday parade when a second bomb thrown by the People's Will kills him. That morning he had approved a modest plan to bring elected delegates into law-making. His son buries the plan along with the Tsar.

When: 1/13 Mar 1881
Type: Turning point
Chapter: Counter-reforms of Alexander III (chapter 2 of Russian Revolution)
Atlas: The Russian Revolution, 1855–1924

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Map showing Assassination of Alexander II (1881), turning point in The Russian Revolution, 1855–1924 — TURNING POINT · THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, 1855–1924

These maps are reconstructed from published sources · Cambridge Modern History Atlas, map 108 — Russia in Europe (1912) · Cliopatria v0.2.1 — dated political boundaries · The Jewish Encyclopedia (1901), volume 10 — Pale of Settlement map · Pamir Boundary Commission — signed delimitation map, 1895/1896 · C. Perron / Élisée Reclus — Russian Encroachments in Turkestan (1884)

Source details

Cambridge Modern History Atlas, map 108 — Russia in Europe (1912). Historical map published before 1931; independently digitized factual geography. Original scan not republished.
Cliopatria contributors / Seshat Global History Databank. CC BY4.0 · Dated polity and constituent territory selections; campaign-dependent occupation overlays reconstructed separately.
The Jewish Encyclopedia (1901), volume 10 — Pale of Settlement map. Historical map published before 1931; independently digitized factual geography. Original scan not republished.
Pamir Boundary Commission — signed delimitation map, 1895/1896. Public domain
C. Perron / Élisée Reclus — Russian Encroachments in Turkestan (1884). Historical map published before 1931; independently digitized factual geography. Original scan not republished.

Imperial borders use dated political outlines. The 1856/1878 Bessarabian settlement and Kars–Batum acquisition are corrected from the published atlas. Turkmen acquisitions follow the 1884 Reclus map, with Merv entering only after 1884.

reconstruction: 1891.41 · trace: 1878 settlement, mapped in 1912 · trace: 1901 source used as the closest provincial reference for 1881–1891 · vector: 1891.41

Layer records and reconstruction methods