Angel of vengeance : the girl who shot the governor of St. Petersburg and sparked the age of assassination
In the winter of 1878 a shy noblewoman, Vera Zasulich, walked up to the governor of St. Petersburg and shot him dead. Revenge, she said, for the governor's brutal treatment of a political prisoner. What followed was Russia's 'trial of the century' and Vera became the face of burgeoning revolutionary fervour
Print Book, English, 2009
1st St. Martin's Griffin ed
St. Martin's Griffin, New York, 2009