Alexander Soloviev (revolutionary)

He worked as a teacher, but complained later that all his pupils were children of the bourgeoisie, or of government officials, so resigned in 1874 to "go to the people" in the hope that he improve the lives of Russian peasants.

[1] Soloviev also visited Saratov to discuss his plan with young rebels there, who had been trying to improve the living conditions of the peasants by offering medical advice and education.

Soloviev told her it was "mere self-gratification, when one considered the existing order of things, under which the struggle for the interests of the masses on a legal foundation appeared iniquitous and illegal in the eyes of the law, of all property-holders, and members of the administration."

He claimed that: The death of the Emperor may bring about a turn in social life; the atmosphere will become purified; the intelligentsia will no longer be diffident, but will enter upon a broad an fruitful activity among the people.

[2]On the morning of 2 April 1879, while Alexander II was taking his usual walk in the grounds of the Winter Palace, he spotted Soloviev with a revolver in his hands, and fled.