19 Facts About Ignacy Hryniewiecki

Ignacy Hryniewiecki or Ignaty Ioakhimovich Grinevitsky was a Polish member of the Russian revolutionary society Narodnaya Volya.

Ignacy Hryniewiecki gained notoriety for participating in the bombing attack to which Tsar Alexander II of Russia succumbed.

Ignacy Hryniewiecki was the son of a Catholic landowner who was of the Polish nobility.

Ignacy Hryniewiecki was dismissed from the institute on June 1,1880, for not attending lectures.

In that year, working under the pseudonyms Kotik and Mikhail Ivanovich, Ignacy Hryniewiecki was engaged in anti-Government activities and disseminated revolutionary propaganda among students and workers.

Ignacy Hryniewiecki was an organizer of the underground literature Rabochaya Gazeta at a clandestine printing establishment.

Ignacy Hryniewiecki volunteered and was designated a bomb-thrower.

At a clandestine meeting, Ignacy Hryniewiecki joined Kibalchich, Nikolai Rysakov and Timofei Mikhailov to test half-loaded bombs in an unfrequented suburban park beyond the Neva around Pargolovo.

The night before the assassination, Ignacy Hryniewiecki wrote a letter to posterity, part of which reads:.

Perovskaya would later relate that, before heading to the Catherine Canal, she, Rysakov and Ignacy Hryniewiecki sat in a confectionery store located opposite of the Gostiny Dvor, impatiently waiting for the right time to intercept Alexander II's cavalcade.

Ignacy Hryniewiecki showed no signs of fear or anxiety and went to his death with an unflinching spirit.

Ignacy Hryniewiecki said "Thank God, I escaped injury," in answer to the anxious inquiries of his entourage.

At this point, Tsar had come to less than 1.5 meters from Ignacy Hryniewiecki, who was leaning against the railing by the canal fence and carrying a bomb wrapped in a handkerchief.

Ignacy Hryniewiecki turned to face the Tsar and raised both arms and threw a bomb at his feet.

Reportedly, Ignacy Hryniewiecki's bomb claimed many more casualties than the first, with one bystander being fatally wounded.

Ignacy Hryniewiecki was taken to the nearby infirmary attached to the Winter Palace.

Ignacy Hryniewiecki's surname was first revealed by the arrested member of People's Will, Kolodkevich.

The role of a bomb-thrower was known to carry with it the likelihood of death, and the designated bomb-throwers such as Ignacy Hryniewiecki took that role knowingly, and accepted a suicide mission.

Ignacy Hryniewiecki is therefore sometimes considered to be the first suicide bomber.