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 ...

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.

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 ...

In the latest in Dominic Alexander’s series on great revolutions, he looks at how Russia went from bloody imperialist war to ...

In 1811, Tsar Alexander ... "I know Alexander," Napoleon said. "I once had influence over him; it will come back. If not, let destiny be accomplished and let Russia be crushed under my hatred ...

Russia had no form of income tax. The Tsar taxed the produce of the peasant ... The peasants of Russia had been freed from serfdom in 1861 by Alexander II. However, in order to give the peasants ...

When Tsar Alexander II of Russia ascended to the throne in 1855, he brought with him the romantic sensibility of his liberal education. His passion for decadent luxury and the finer things in life ...