Ignnatei
Grinevitski, the son of a small landowner, was born in Grodno in 1857.
After attending school in Byelostok he was admitted to the Technological
Institute in Petersburg.
Grinevitski
became involved in revolutionary politics and joined the People's
Will in 1880. The following year he took part in the plot to kill
Alexander II. Others involved in the
plot included Sophia Perovskaya,
Andrei Zhelyabov, Gesia Gelfman,
Nikolai Sablin, Nikolai
Kibalchich, Nikolai Rysakov and Timofei
Mikhailov. Grinevitski threw the bomb that killed the Tsar on
1st March, 1881. He died shortly afterwards as a result of the wounds
he received from the explosion.
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