Timeline Tuesday 17 February 1880

Events on Tuesday 17 February 1880 1

• 1880 Winter Palace bombing fails to kill Alexander II Narodnaya Volya bombs the tsar's dining room Revolutionary Stepan Khalturin detonated a bomb beneath the dining room of the Winter Palace on 17 February 1880, hoping to kill Tsar Alexander II. The tsar was late to dinner and survived, but eleven guardsmen were killed. The attack was one of several by the Narodnaya Volya group before the tsar's assassination the following year.