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Original Title: TIL in 1878 Vera Zasulich shot and seriously wounded Fyodor Trepov, the notoriously cruel governor of St Petersburg, after he ordered the flogging of a political prisoner who refused to remove his hat in his presence. A sympathetic judge and jury, and a skilled lawyer led to her getting acquitted