On May 20, 1887, 137 years ago, Alexander Ulyanov and his comrades were hanged for attempting to assassinate Alexander III. Alexander Ulyanov was one of the organizers and leaders of the "Terrorist Faction" of the "People's Will" party, the older brother of V.I. Lenin. The "Terrorist Faction" mainly consisted of students from St. Petersburg University (P. Andreushkin, V. Generalov, O. Govorukhin, Y. Lukashevich, V. Osipanov, N. Rudevich, and others) and was independent of other populist groups, maintaining connections with circles in Vilnius and Kharkov, with revolutionary-minded students of the capital's military educational institutions, and spreading propaganda among workers. The faction members were influenced by the ideas of K. Marx, F. Engels, and G. Plekhanov, as well as the programmatic documents of the "People's Will." The "Terrorist Faction" program recognized the need to organize a socialist party, with the working class as its core, nationalizing land, factories, and plants, and ultimately establishing a socialist regime. Following the tradition of the "People's Will," the program's authors considered the struggle for political freedoms through the "disorganization" of the government as the primary task of the organization, recognizing terrorism as a method of struggle. They planned an assassination attempt on Emperor Alexander III, scheduled for March 13, 1887, in honor of the day six years earlier when Emperor Alexander II was also killed by the People's Will. However, the attempt failed – the terrorists had long been under police surveillance and were all arrested. During the search, three bombs, a revolver, and the program of the "People's Will" executive committee were found. The assassination attempt on the tsar ended with the destruction of the organization. The participants and organizers of the attempt (15 people) were tried from April 15-19 in a special session of the Governmental Senate. Initially, the court sentenced all to death, but Alexander III confirmed the capital punishment for only five. On May 20, 1887, in the Shlisselburg Fortress, Ulyanov, Andreushkin, Generalov, Osipanov, and Shevyrev were hanged, while the others were sentenced to various terms of hard labor and exile in Siberia.