 ignacy hryniewiecki (; ignaty ioakhimovich grinevizky; 1856 â 13 march 1881) (party name: kotik, russian for "kitten") was a member of the people's will and the assassin of tsar alexander ii of russia. ==early life== hryniewiecki was born in polish noble family in 1856 in kalinovka, a village in klichev district, nowaday belarus. ==revolutionary life== in 1875 hryniewiecki left for saint petersburg, where he enrolled in mathematics at the polytechnic. soon he joined the russian revolutionary narodnaya volya (people's will) movement. in 1880 hryniewiecki, andrei zhelyabov, sophia perovskaya and others were in charge of revolutionary propaganda among students and workers. hryniewiecki was an organizer of the workers' gazette and a typesetter at a clandestine printing establishment. ==assassination of tsar== in february 1881, hryniewiecki joined the bomb-thrower unit created to assassinate tsar alexander ii. the night prior to the assassination, hryniewiecki wrote a letter to posterity, a fragment of which reads:  on 13 march 1881, (1 march o.s.) alexander ii was traveling in a two-seater carriage. an armed cossack sat next to the coach-driver with alexander ii in the carriage while six other cossacks followed on horseback. as the carriage approached a street corner near the catherine canal, sophia perovskaya gave the signal to nikolai rysakov and timofei mikhailov to throw their bombs. the tsar was unharmed but two were wounded. alexander ii insisted upon leaving the carriage to check on the wounded.{{cite book|last=kropotkin|first=peter|authorlink=peter kropotkin|title=memoirs of a revolutionist|publisher=[[dover publications]
1856_births 1881_crimes 1881_deaths Belarusian_revolutionaries Male_suicide_bombers People_from_Minsk_Governorate People_from_Mogilev_Region Polish_assassins Polish_nobility Polish_politicians Russian_regicides Russian_revolutionaries Suicide_bombers Suicides_in_Russia