Ivan Panteleymonovich Yemelyanov (Иван Пантелеймонович Емельянов), a boy of twenty, who after graduating from a trade school, had studied abroad on a grant from Baron Ginzburg, and became a cabinetmaker.

He was one of the three bomb-throwers who assassinated Tsar Alexander II of Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

 on 1 March 1881. The first bomb, thrown by Nikolai Rysakov

Nikolai Rysakov

Nikolai Rysakov was a Russian revolutionary and a member of Narodnaya Volya. He personally took part in the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, throwing a bomb that disabled the Tsar's carriage. A second bomb by an accomplice, Ignacy Hryniewiecki, was fatal to the Tsar...

, only damaged the carriage and wounded one of the guards. A second bomb thrown by Ignacy Hryniewiecki

Ignacy Hryniewiecki

Ignaty Gryniewietsky , 1856 – 13 March 1881) was a member of the People's Will and the assassin of Tsar Alexander II of Russia.-Early life:...

 succeeded in mortally wounding the tsar. Yemelyanov carried a third bomb; but seeing that Hryniewiecki's attack was successful, he fled the scene.

In March alone nearly fifty men and women were put behind bars because they were suspected of having some roles in the assassination. Accompanied by a detective, Mikhail Loris-Melikov walked the streets of the capital and pointed out men and women to be seized. One of his first collars was Yemelyanov, the only member of the bombing squad to have survived.