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Ignacy Hryniewiecki (Игнатий Гриневицкий in Russian, or Ignatiy Grinevitskiy) (August of 1855, or fall of 1856 - 1881), Polish-Russian revolutionary, murderer of Tsar Alexander II of Russia.
In 1875-1880, Hryniewiecki was a student at St.Petersburg Institute of Technology. He participated in Polish and Russian revolutionary meetings and in 1879 joined Narodnaya Volya. In 1880, Hryniewiecki, Andrei Zhelyabov, Sophia Perovskaya and others were in charge of revolutionary propaganda among students and workers. He was one of the organizers of the "Worker's Gazette" and a type-setter for a clandestine printing-house.
On March 1, 1881 Hryniewiecki threw a bomb at the Tsar Alexander II, who was passing through Nevsky Prospekt near the Winter Palace. The Tsar was fatally wounded in the explosion and died a few hours afterwards. Hryniewiecki died at the scene, as well.
The assassination, carried out by the radical revolutionary group People's Will (Narodnaya Volya), was aimed at igniting a social revolution. Its members - Nikolai Kibalchich, Sophia Perovskaya, Nikolai Rysakov, Timofei Mikhailov, Andrei Zhelyabov - were arrested and sentenced to death. Gesya Gelfman was sent to Siberia.
Hryniewiecki was a Pole from Lithuania (Bobrujsk, now Babruysk, Belarus), where suppression of Poles and persecutions were the harshest. It included complete ban on the use of the Polish language in public places, schools and offices.
The Church of the Savior on Blood was erected on the site of the assassination.
Also see Pervomartovtsi, Aleksandr Ulyanov
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