Взрыв на Аптекарском острове.

Покушение на Петра Столыпина

12 августа 1906 года.

The explosion on Aptekarsky Island.

Attempted assassination of Pyotr A. Stolypin

August 12, 1906

Music:

Andante from the Piano Concerto №2 F-Dur, Op.102

by D. Shostakovich

On 25 August 1906, three assassins from the Union of Socialists Revolutionaries Maximalists, wearing military uniforms, bombed a public reception Stolypin was holding at his dacha on Aptekarsky Island. Stolypin was only slightly injured by flying splinters, but 28 others were killed.