In other words, it was not his fault that he was the Tsar of Russia! The grim shadow of assassination pursued him wherever he went.

In 1879 the imperial train was destroyed by mines placed beneath the tracks.
In 1880 the imperial apartments in "the Winterhof" were partially wrecked by similar means.

Seventeen men marched stolidly to the gallows, regretting nothing except the failure of their crime; and hundreds more who were implicated in the plot were sent into perpetual exile in Siberia.

The hand never relaxed--nor was the Constitution demanded by these atrocious means granted.
On the 13th of March, 1881, while the Emperor was driving, a bomb was thrown beneath his carriage.

He stepped out of the wreck unhurt.