Which so-called "mad monk", who held great influence over Russia's czarina, was murdered in 1916?

Which French president resigned in 1969 after voters rejected his proposals for constitutional reform? Which poet, who wrote "Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me", died on May 15, 1886? Because of a policy adopted in 1979, which country's only children came to be called "little emperors"? Because of his deist beliefs, which author of "The Age of Reason" died a social outcast in New York City in 1809? Because of its secrecy, the American Party of the 1850s was also known by what name? Because New Jersey passed corporate laws favorable to holding companies in 1889, which tycoon reorganized his Standard… The Great Famine of the 1840s, caused by potato blight, drove more than a million people to emigrate from which country? Which Southern writer, who died at 39 in 1964, published only two novels, "Wise Blood" and one other?