We all know that on March 13th 1881 an assasination attempt on the life Alexander II took place. He was a reformist Czar and his death could have radically changed Russian history. Fortunately it was poorly executed. The first two bombs failed to kill him and the third was never thrown as the one who should have thrown it was drunk; sleeping in a gutter somewhere. He freed the serfs, opened up the country to foreign investors and entrepreneurs so Russia could industrialize, instituted a constitution and parliament (Duma), also Russia's infrastructure was greatly improved upon during his reign which lasted from 1855 to 1906. Both his son and heir apparent, Alexander and his grand son Nicholas were very conservative and would have become Czar had he died that day. It still wasn't ideal as a lot of power was still invested in the Czar. But a weak bourgeois democracy was better than no democracy at all. What would Russia be like if Alexander II had died that day?