Looking Back at February 17, 1905.

by Penny Wilson

Just a few days ago, on the seventeenth of February, was the 119th anniversary of the 1905 assassination of Grand Duke Serge Alexandrovich. Until very shortly before the time of his death, Serge Alexandrovich had been serving as Governor General of Moscow, and, as an extreme conservative, he was a polarizing figure in the politics of the time. The Grand…