The specifics of the era

Literary critic Galina Yuzefovich writes :

“In 1905, the Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna visited Socialist -Revolutionary Ivan Kalyaev in prison, who killed her husband, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich. And the next day, she gave the highest name a petition for his pardon (it did not help - Kalyaeva was still hanged). Today, Elizaveta Fedorovna would have sat for ten years for the justification of terrorism. ”