Everything went as expected. Kalyaev was about to throw his bomb at the carriage of the Grand Duke, but he noticed that Sergei Alexandrovich's wife (Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna) and young nephews (children of the Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovich) were also in the carriage, and he aborted the assassination.
Kalyaev was prepared to attack the Grand Duke with a bomb, but he changed his mind when he saw that the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fyodorovna and the Grand Duke's young nephews were also present in the carriage.