on one of the russian ships, ivan kruzenshtern, the future first circumnavigator of russia, served as a midshipman. the battle of vyborg became a key event in the next russian swedish war and one of the largest battles in the maritime history of the 18th century, military failures put an end to hopes of restoring swedish dominance. in the baltic on july 3, 1879, a fateful congress was held in voronezh populist organization land, and will after which its members split into two groups. the so-called villagers were going to continue propaganda among the peasants and opposed violence. but the so-called politicians switched to the methods of political terror in order to disorganize the government and raise the people to rebellions . as a result, already in august, the radical supporters of the organization united in narodnaya volya and became revolutionaries, terrorists set the task of killing the king, seeing all the evil in him, there were many attempts, the last one in march 1881 was a success emperor alexander ii was mortally wounded by a bomb that grinevitsky threw on the rodovites, b