Ignacy Hryniewiecki, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish assassin
Date of Birth: 17-Jun-1856
Place of Birth: Kalinawka, Mogilev Region, Belarus
Date of Death: 01-Mar-1881
Profession: politician
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Ignacy Hryniewiecki
- Ignacy Hryniewiecki or Ignaty Grinevitsky (Russian: ??????? ???????????; c.?1856 — March 13, 1881) was a Polish member of the Russian conspirational revolutionary society Narodnaya Volya.
- He gained notoriety for participating in the bombing attack to which Tsar Alexander II of Russia succumbed.
- Hryniewiecki threw the bomb that fatally wounded the Tsar and himself.
- Having outlived his victim by a few hours, he died on the same day. Hryniewiecki and his accomplices believed that the assassination of Alexander II could provoke a political or social revolution to overthrow the tsarist autocracy.
- Many historians consider the assassination as a Pyrrhic victory, since instead of ushering in a revolution, it strengthened the resolve of the state to crush the revolutionary movement, leading to its decline in the 1880s.
- Hryniewiecki's role in the assassination has sometimes been cited as the earliest occurrence of suicide terrorism.
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