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| 1584 | Ivan IV the Terrible |  |
| Moscow Kills his son Ivan |
| 1606 | Dmitry I | |
| Murdered by Vasily Shuysky |
| 1762 | Orlov | |
| Strangles Peter III in plot to place Catherine II on the throne |
| 1762 | Peter III | |
| Assassinated after the abdication & succeeded by his wife Catherine II |
| 1800 | Benningsen | |
| 24th Mar Member of a court cabal who assassinate Peter I |
| 1801 | Paul I | |
| 23rd Mar Moscow Russian officers declare Alexander Emperor |
| 23rd Mar Moscow Strangled in his bed during a Kremlin coups by drunken Russian Officers |
| 1866 | Alexander II | |
| An attempt is made on Alexander's life by an ex-student, Karakozov |
| Provokes a wave of repression against the universities |
| 1878 | Trepov, Fyodor Fyodorovich | |
| Moscow Shot by Vera Zasulich |
| Moscow The Jury refuse to convict because of Trepov's repressive measures |
| 1878 | Zasulich, Vera | |
| Moscow Assassinates Trepov the Chief of St Petersburg Police |
| 1881 | Alexander II | |
| 13th Mar Alexander II, Tsar of Russia, is assassinated, a bomb is thrown at him near his palace by the anarchist group People's Will led by Sophia Perovskaya |
| 1881 | Perovskaya, Sophia | |
| 13th Mar Alexander II, Tsar of Russia, is assassinated, a bomb is thrown at him near his palace by the anarchist group People's Will led by Sophia Perovskaya |
| 1901 | Bogolepov, Nikolai Petrovich | |
| Feb Moscow Assassination of Nikolai Petrovich Bogolepov |
| 1901 | Nicholas II | |
| 27th Feb Students assassinate the Minister of Propaganda |
| 1902 | Plehve, Vyacheslav Konstantinovich | |
| April Assassinated by a student from Kiev University who had been expelled |
| 1902 | Sipiagin, Dimitri Sergeevich | |
| 2nd April Moscow Assassination of Dimitri Sergeevich Sipiagin |
| 1904 | Plehve, Vyacheslav Konstantinovich | |
| 15th July Assassination of Vyacheslav Konstantinovich Plehve |
| 1904 | Savinkov, Boris | |
| 15th July Directs an operation which results in the assassination of Plehve |
| 1904 | Savinkov, Boris Viktorovich | |
| Organizes the assassination of Plehve |
| 1905 | Kaliev, Ivan | |
| 17th Feb Assassinates Grand Duke Sergei |
| 1905 | Savinkov, Boris Viktorovich | |
| Organizes the assassination of Grand Duke Sergey Alexanderovich |
| 1905 | Serge | |
| 17th Feb Moscow The Tsar's uncle is assassinated |
| 1906 | Stolypin, Pyotr Arkadyevich | |
| 12th Aug Moscow The Socialist revolutionary maximalists make a failed attempt on stolypin's life |
| 1911 | Bogrov, Mordkha | |
| Moscow A Jewish police informer, the incident provokes anti-Jewish tension |
| Kiev Shoots Stolypin the Duma Prime Minister at the opera in front of Tsar Nicholas II |
| 1911 | Nicholas II | |
| 1st Sep Kiev Shot at the opera in Kiev in front of Tsar Nicholas II |
| 1911 | Stolypin, Pyotr Arkadyevich | |
| 5th Sep Dies in hospital after being shot 4 days previously |
| 14th Sep Kiev Shot at the opera in Kiev in front of Tsar Nicholas II |
| 1916 | Rasputin, Grigor | |
| 30th Dec Assassination of Grigor Rasputin |
| 1918 | UritskII, Moisei Solomonovich | |
| 30th Aug The head of the Petrograd cheka is assassinated |
| 1934 | Kirov, Sergei Mironovich | |
| 1st Dec Leningrad Assassination by Stalin's men is used by Stalin to begin his party purges |
| 1934 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| 1st Dec Leningrad The assassination of Kirov sparks off purges in Russia |
| 1938 | Sedov, Lev | |
| Paris Assassination of Lev Sedov, Trotsky's son, by Stalin's secret police |
| 1938 | Trotsky, Leon | |
| Paris Assassination of Lev Sedov, Trotsky's son, by Stalin's secret police |
| 1940 | Trotsky, Leon | |
| 20th Aug Mexico City Assassinated in Mexico City |
| 1948 | Zhdanov, Andrei Aleksandrovich | |
| Assassinated during what in 1953 would become the "doctors' plot" |
| 1953 | Zhdanov, Andrei Aleksandrovich | |
| Jan Moscow 9 Russian & 6 Jewish doctors confess to the murder of Andrei Zhdanov |
| 1979 | Brezhnev, Leonoid Ilych | |
| 27th Dec Kabul A broadcast from a facility in Soviet Uzbekistan announces that the execution of Hafizullah Amin was carried out by the AfghanRevolutionary Central Committee |
| 27th Dec Kabul At 7:15, the storm of Tajbeg Palace begins, with the clear objective to depose or kill President Hafizullah Amin, the operation ends with the death of Amin, and lasted 45 minutes |
