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 ...

Grand Duke George Romanov, an heir to the House of Romanov, and Princess Victoria have announced the gender of their second ...

The land for its construction was purchased by Russian Emperor Alexander II in 1859. The compound was built by the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society in 1896. The controversy surrounding its ...

The peasants of Russia had been freed from serfdom in 1861 by Alexander II. However, in order to give the peasants land, the government had to pay the landowners for it. As a result, the peasants ...

It was introduced after the assassination of Alexander II in 1881 and was the source of much resentment. Russian was the official language and all others were suppressed. Poles were banned from ...