WI: Fewer Acquittals in Russia's Trial of the 193 (1877-1878)

For those who do not know of the trial hear is a link.

Out of the 193 prisoners on trial for conspiracy 153 wear acquited including Sophia Perovskaya who lead the Narodnaya Volya in assasinating Tsar Alexander II of Russia and Andrei Zhelyabov a follower of her.

But what if fewer prisoners had been acquitted than in OTL with Sophia Perovskaya being among them as well as other later members of the Narodnaya Volya. Without them might there still be other attempts on Tsar Alexander II's life? If he lives what changes might occur in Russia? Might Aleksandr Ulyanov (Lenin's older brother) still join the Narodnaya Volya as he did in OTL before their plot to kill Alexander III which lead to him being arrested executed? If not how might Lenin's life be different from OTL.
 
Wiki said, that people sympathized prisoners, and even so mild judgement "led to the turn from peaceful protest to violent terrorism". So, if judgement will harder, people may become more angry.
Moreover, foreign journalists said, that arguments were weak ("one has read Lassalle, another carried "The Capital" of K. Marks, third give a book to his friend"). So, the tzar may be pressed hardly from foreign diplomats and rating of Russia will be suffered.
I think - terrorism will be stronger, and Alexander II may be killed early - or "the Reactionary" will begin early, during his life.
 
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