Philosophical pessimists are often existential nihilists believing that life has no intrinsic meaning or value. Moral nihilists assert that morality does not exist at all. Both the nihilists and the 1830s liberals sought Western-based social change in Russia. Russian nihilists eventually succeeded in assassinating Alexander II in 1881. The Nihilists first attempted to convert the aristocracy to the cause of reform. Karakozov was an inspiration for the radical nihilists Sergei Nechaev and Vera Zasulich. He also influenced later generations of Russian revolutionary nihilists. They supposedly called themselves nihilists because nothing "that then existed found favor in their eyes". Masyanya sings for a group of Nihilists. The Nihilists, which he co-founded and played with for six years. This piece of literature anticipated and instigated the ideas of the nihilists. Maraloffski joins the Nihilists to kill Alexis. In 2015, it was announced that Mudriczki has formed a new band called The Nihilists. While at the university, he met Louise Ivanovna Krilof and Maria Nikolaevna Lujine, Russian Nihilists. Mereological nihilists claim that there are no composite material objects.