in 1903, the known double agent Yevno Azef decided not to inform on the Socialist Revolutionary Party plans to kill Plehve. He survived one attack in 1903 and two in 1904 before the Socialist-Revolutionary Combat Organization succeeded. On 28 July 1904, a bomb was thrown into Plehve's horse-drawn carriage by a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party named Igor Sazonov, on his weekly audience with the Tsar at Izmailovsky Prospekt in Saint Petersburg, killing him. Political legacy Because Plehve carried out the russification of the provinces within the Russian Empire, he earned bitter hatred in Poland, in Lithuania and especially in Finland. He despoiled the Armenian Apostolic Church, and was credited with being accessory to the Kishinev pogroms. His logical mind and determined support of the autocratic principle gained the tsar's entire confidence. He opposed commercial development on ordinary European lines on the ground that it involved the existence both of a dangerous proletariat and of a prosperous middle class equally inimical to autocracy. Notes References Further reading External links 1846 births 1904 deaths People from Meshchovsk People from Meshchovsky Uyezd Russian people of German descent Russian nobility Active Privy Councillor (Russian Empire) Members of the Russian Assembly Interior ministers of Russia Members of the State Council (Russian Empire) Senators of the Russian Empire Russian police chiefs Moscow State University alumni Assassinated politicians of the Russian Empire Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Russia) Recipients of the Order of St. Vladimir, 2nd class Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 1st class Recipients of the Order of Saint Stanislaus (Russian), 1st class