THE ACCESSION OF ALEXANDER III.

AND THE INAUGURATION OF POGROMS 1.

THE TRIUMPH OF AUTOCRACY On March 1, 1881, Alexander II.

met his death on one of the principal thoroughfares of St.Petersburg, smitten by dynamite bombs hurled at him by a group of terrorists.

The Tzar, who had freed the Russian peasantry from personal slavery, paid with his life for refusing to free the Russian people from political slavery and police tyranny.