The published materials of the case about the terrorist act committed by the revolutionaries-People's Will on March 1, 1881, as a result of which Emperor Alexander II died from his wounds on the same day, will allow the reader to experience without intermediaries the time when a merciless and irreconcilable struggle between the autocracy was waged in Russia and the revolutionary element of denial and destruction that was gaining strength for the sake of its ideals of government. The circumstances of life in Russia in those years, the worldview of terrorist revolutionaries, what guided the authorities in those years, the trial itself and the issues raised during it have not lost their relevance today.