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Events on Friday 17 February 1905 1
1905Assassination of Grand Duke SergeiA bomb in the KremlinThe Socialist Revolutionary Ivan Kalyayev throws a bomb into the carriage of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, the Tsar's uncle and former Governor-General of Moscow, inside the Kremlin walls. Sergei's widow visits Kalyayev in his cell and offers a pardon if he will repent. He refuses and is hanged.