St. Petersburg, the Tsarist Government, now belatedly alert, also reacted. Without a doubt, someone was plotting against them.
The Russian Empire, fresh from victory in the Near East War and the conquest of Constantinople, seemed to bask in boundless glory, yet it had also drawn full measure of hatred.
As the defeated, neither England nor France were content with their loss and constantly sought revenge; as mere onlookers, the rest of Europe feared a mighty Russia would threaten their own safety.
With everyone, deliberately or not, pushing the situation, the Polish Independence Organization had grown more powerful, fueled by every little bit leaked from beneath everyone's fingernails.
Inside the Winter Palace
Alexander II roared, "Those bastards, since when did they get the right to meddle with the great Russian Empire!"
