Angel of Vengeance: The Girl Who Shot the Governor of St. Petersburg and Sparked the Age of AssassinationIn the Russian winter of 1878 a shy, aristocratic young woman named Vera Zasulich walked into the office of the governor of St. Petersburg, pulled a revolver from underneath her shawl, and shot General Fedor Trepov point blank. Revenge , she cried, for the governor's brutal treatment of a political prisoner. Her trial for murder later that year became Russia's trial of the century, closely followed by people all across Europe and America. On the day