The Polish Exile Who Tried to Kill a Tsar in Paris
June 6, 1867. In the heart of Paris, a 20-year-old Polish patriot steps from the crowd, raises a cheap double-barreled pistol, and fires at Tsar Alexander II riding beside Napoleon III. The gun explodes in his hand. The bullet hits a horse instead.
What follows is a swift trial, a life sentence of hard labor in a remote Pacific penal colony, and nearly fifty years of exile that ends in obscurity.
Host Alexander Lawson tells the true story of Antoni Berezowski — the forgotten assassin whose single desperate shot revealed the deep wounds of a crushed uprising and the long reach of imperial…
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