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.

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 ...