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| 1866 | Alexander II |  |
| An attempt is made on Alexander's life by an ex-student, Karakozov |
| 1866 | Tolstoy | |
| Moscow Begins a policy of repression against universities after an attempt on the Tsar's life |
| 1918 | Kaplan, Fanya | |
| 30th Aug Attempts to assassinate Lenin for being a traitor to the Revolution |
| 1918 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| 1st Jan A failed attempt is made on Lenin's life |
| 30th Aug An attempt on Lenin's life as 3 shots are fired during an address at a labour rally |
| 30th Aug One bullet hits his neck & another hits his collarbone |
| 1936 | Yezhkov, Nikolay Ivanovich | |
| Moscow Yezhov is made Commissar for Internal Affairs to unmask the Trotsky-Zinoviev plot |
| 1936 | Zinoviev, Grigory Yevseyevich | |
| July Against the "terrorist activity of Trotskyite-Zinoviev counter-revolutionary bloc" |
| 1938 | Bukharin, Nikolai | |
| Mar Accused of plotting to kill Lenin during the Brest-Litovsk negotiations in 1918 |
| 1940 | Trotsky, Leon | |
| 24th May Mexico City A failed assassination attempt on Trotsky when gunmen fire on his villa |
| 1948 | Zhdanov, Andrei Aleksandrovich | |
| Assassinated during what in 1953 would become the "doctors' plot" |
| 1953 | Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich | |
| Claims that the doctors confessions had been elicited by torture & were false |
| 1953 | Khruschev, Nikita Sergeyevich | |
| Jan Moscow 9 Russian & 6 Jewish doctors confess to the murder of Andrei Zhdanov |
| 1953 | Malenkov, Georgi Maksimilanovich | |
| Mar Dismisses the "doctors plot" as "provocation & fake" |
| 1953 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| Jan Moscow Outbreak of the Doctor's Plot |
| Jan Moscow Stalin arrests & charges 9 Kremlin doctors for plotting to kill Russian leaders |
| Feb 28 doctors & their wives are arrested |
| 1953 | Zhdanov, Andrei Aleksandrovich | |
| Jan Moscow 9 Russian & 6 Jewish doctors confess to the murder of Andrei Zhdanov |
| 1956 | Khruschev, Nikita Sergeyevich | |
| Moscow Says that the plot was instigated by Stalin to begin an anti-semitic purge |
| 1990 | Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich | |
| 6th Nov A gunman opens fire on Gorbachev during the Revolution Day parade |
