This mounted portrait appeared in The Illustrated London News shortly after Czar Alexander II assumed the throne of Russia. John Tenniel. Cartoon. Punch. March 11, 1855 After Czar Nicholas I died on ...

There is no need to account for this grand act of enfranchisement by supposing the Czar ALEXANDER II. either philanthropic beyond all other Russian monarchs, or moved by any very recondite policy.

Among them is the blood-stained shirt of Czar Alexander II of Russia (Alexander the Liberator) which he wore in the last hours of his life before his assassination on 13 March 1881. The ceremony ...

Her son Paul I restored the succession of oldest sons to the throne, which continued through Alexander III and Nicholas II, the last tsar. Alexander III (ruled 1881 Ü 1894) began a web of ...

It was introduced after the assassination of Alexander II in 1881 and was ... part of the Empire had become an enemy of the Tsar. During Nicholas II’s reign, the Black Hundreds was formed.

The Tsar taxed the produce of the peasant farmers ... The peasants of Russia had been freed from serfdom in 1861 by Alexander II. However, in order to give the peasants land, the government ...