On September 14th 2012, Russia commemorated 101 years since the assassination of Pyotr Stolypin, prime-minister of the Russian Empire and, according to historians, Russia’s last great statesman. Stolypin was shot during events organized on September 14th 1911, events celebrating five decades since the emancipation of serfs. A monument dedicated to Tsar Alexander II was to be unveiled in Kiev, and the city Opera was hosting a show that the Tsar and his prime-minister were supposed to attend. The authorities had received information from a man named Dmitri Bogrov, an old informant of the Ohrana, the Russian secret police, that there was an assassination plan targeting Stolypin. Because of Bogrov’s information, the police decided to take extra strict security measures to protect the prime-minister during his stay in Kiev. The night of the opera show, this Bogrov was allowed access in the building despite the fact he was a carrying a revolver. And it turned out the plan he had talked about was indeed true, but that he was the assassin! He shot Stolypin twice, in the arm and in the chest, and the prime-minister, who had refused to wear a bulletproof vest, was seriously injured. Right after being shot, Stolypin declared he was happy to die for the Tsar. He was then rushed to hospital, where he died four days later. On September 24th, Dmitri Bogrov was hanged and the investigation surrounding Stolypin’s death was stopped on direct orders from the Tsar, for reasons unknown. There have been many questions regarding Stolypin’s assassination, due to facts that suggest the prime-minister wasn’t properly protected and that the police might have been involved in Bogrov’s plot. Because of the Tsar’s visit to Kiev, accompanied by the prime-minister and other important people in the government, the city’s police instated strict security measures. Even the best dressed people were sto