Terrorist Vera Zasulich, who shot at the mayor F. F. Trepov in 1878, was completely acquitted and released in the courtroom! As a result of this process, the romance of terror and revolution was clearly reinforced by a sense of permissiveness and impunity. Society seemed to have given its citizens the “right to kill out of conviction,” terrorism became a fashionable way of expressing protest “against oppressors and tyrants.” It became fashionable to be a terrorist, the progressive public carried fiery fighters in their arms, young people began to join the fighters for “people’s happiness” in droves educated and prosperous, mostly nobles or people from the merchant class. Young emancipated girls and even ladies, whom the game of revolution equalized in rights with men, wanted loud and bright glory, and they all took it, shoulder to shoulder, sparing neither themselves nor others, to sow death and give their young lives in the name of a “bright future.”