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  Alexander I of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexander, in fact, who, without being consciously tyrannical, possessed in full measure the tyrant's characteristic distrust of men of ability and independent judgment, lacked also the first requisite for a reforming sovereign: confidence in his people; and it was this want that vitiated such reforms as were actually realized.
Alexander's grandiose imagination was, however, more strongly attracted by the great questions of European politics than by attempts at domestic reform which, on the whole, wounded his pride by proving to him the narrow limits of absolute power.
Alexander, indeed, assisted Napoleon in the war of 1809, but he declared plainly that he would not allow the Austrian Empire to be crushed out of existence; and Napoleon complained bitterly of the inactivity of the Russian troops during the campaign.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_I_of_Russia   (3817 words)

  
 Alexander Palace Alexander III bio
Ironically, Alexander III was not born heir to the Russian throne.
Alexander II was mortally wounded and died shortly thereafter.
Alexander Alexandrovich Romanov, Tsar of all the Russia's, died of Nephritis on October 20, 1894 (OS) at the summer palace at Livadia in the Crimea.
www.alexanderpalace.org /palace/alexbio.html   (1245 words)

  
 Whims of Fate [The Voice of Russia]
Emperor Alexander I was one of the most enigmatic and controversial characters in Russian history.
Alexander Pavlovich Romanov, or Emperor Alexander I, was born on December 12, 1777.
Many of Alexander’s contemporaries who got to known him from an early age all attested to his controversial character: intelligent and well educated, Alexander shirked his stately duties which he thought were too difficult for him to perform.
www.vor.ru /English/whims/whims_006.html   (745 words)

  
 The Alexander Palace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
For Alexander Alexandrovich, grandson of Nicholas I and future Emperor Alexander III, the Alexander Palace was the residence of the Grand Duke, and his apartments were located in the right wing of the palace.
After the town of Pushkin was seized by German troops, the halls of the Alexander Palace housed the German headquarters and gestapo, and the cellars became a prison, the square in front of the palace was turned into a cemetery for SS soldiers.
In 1951 the Alexander Palace by government decree was transferred to the Navy Department, and the palace museum's collection sent for keeping to the Catherine and Pavlovsk palace museums, including objects created especially for the interiors of the Alexander Palace.
eng.tzar.ru /alexander   (1079 words)

  
 Chapter Chapter 21 of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
While the Emperor was riding up to one flank of the battalions, who presented arms, another crowd of horsemen was galloping up to the opposite flank, and at the head of them Rostov recognised Napoleon.
What struck him as something unexpected and strange was that Alexander behaved as though Bonaparte were his equal, and that Bonaparte in his manner to the Russian Tsar seemed perfectly at ease, as though this equal and intimate relation with a monarch were something natural and customary with him.
Alexander and Napoleon, with a long tail of suite, moved towards the right flank of the Preobrazhensky battalion, close up to the crowd which was standing there.
www.bibliomania.com /0/0/52/96/19257/1.html   (569 words)

  
 Alexander Severus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
His entire elevation was in fact part of a plot by the powerful Julia Maesa, grandmother to both Elagabalus and Alexander, to rid herself of Elagabalus and instead substitute him on the throne with Alexander.
Alexander and Mamaea therefore returned to Rome to hold a triumphal march through the streets of the capital in the autumn of AD 233.
Alexander and Julia Mamaea were both murdered by their own troops (March AD 235).
www.roman-empire.net /decline/alex-severus.html   (1155 words)

  
 The Russian Monarchy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
EMPEROR IVAN VI Ivan VI Antonovich (1740-1764) - Emperor from 1740 to 1741.
Emperor Alexander II died in 1881 when a bomb was throne at his carriage by Revolutionary terrorist I. Grinevitsky.
Following the abdication, former Emperor Nicholas II and his family were placed under house arrest and kept under guard at the Alexander Palace in Tzarskoje Selo, where, on August 14, 1917, Nicholas Romanov and his family were sent to Tobolsk.
eng.tzar.ru /history/monarchy   (1886 words)

  
 Chronicles of Oklahoma
Alexander McGillivray has been described as the most gifted man ever born on the soil of Alabama by a man who was a noted soldier, prolific historian, and president of the United States.
Her first baby, born in 1740, was a boy who was given the all conquering name of Alexander and whose ability as a writer, when a man, is amply shown in his letters in the American State Papers.
When Alexander reached the age of fourteen his mother gave her consent (which was necessary, as among the Creeks, the children always belong to the mother) and Lachlan took him to Charleston and placed him in a school.
digital.library.okstate.edu /Chronicles/v007/v007p106.html   (4822 words)

  
 Alexander III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The second son of Alexander II was born in St. Petersburg on February 26, 1845.
Alexander III became official heir to the throne after the death of his elder brother, Nicholas, in 1865.
Alexander III died on October 20, 1894, in Livadia, Crimea, and was buried in the Cathedral of the St. Peter and St. Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg.
www2.sptimes.com /treasures/TC.2.3.18.html   (188 words)

  
 The Memoirs of Napoleon, V13, 1815
The Commissioners being introduced to the two sovereigns, the Emperor Alexander, in answer to their proposition, replied that the Regency was impossible, as submissions to the Provisional Government were pouring in from all parts, and that if the army had formed contrary wishes those should have been sooner made known.
Alexander was expected to arrive immediately, and the Emperor of Austria therefore informed his daughter that the Russian monarch wished to see her.
The Emperor and his horse were both borne along by the multitude, and he had scarcely time to breathe in the inn where he alighted when an increased tumult was heard without; the inhabitants of Grenoble came to offer him the broken gates of the city, since they could not present him with the keys.
www.pos1.info /n/nb13v.htm   (19730 words)

  
 Alexander --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Byzantine emperor from May 12, 912, third son of the emperor Basil I, who founded the Macedonian dynasty and caused the renewal of warfare between Bulgaria and the Byzantine Empire.
Alexander was crowned co-emperor with his brother Leo VI in 879 after the death of their elder brother, Constantine, but he remained inactive in state affairs until after Leo's…
Alexander the Great was able to conquer a large area in a remarkably short period of time.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9005584?tocId=9005584   (602 words)

  
 Lampridius: The Life of Severus Alexander   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Alexander, however, in wishing the prefects to be senators had this end in view, namely, that no one might pass judgment on a Roman senator who was not a senator himself.
Alexander's appointment of these two jurists to the prefecture of the guard was an important step in the transformation of this post from a military office to a judicial one.
Alexander also began the Basilica Alexandrina, situated between the Campus Martius and the Saepta of Agrippa, one hundred feet broad and one thousand long and so constructed that its weight rested wholly on columns; its completion, however, was prevented by his death.
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 Russian Lacquer Box - Alexander I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Emperor Alexander I Pavlovich (1777-1825) was an older son of Emperor Paul I and grandson of Catherine the Great.
He became emperor in 1801 after a court overthrow, resulting in the murder of his father, Paul I. Alexander I was raised in a liberal way by his grandmother and by his teachers.
Alexander I liked the project, and was planning to implement it starting in 1810, but then had a change of heart and Speransky's proposal was never realized.
www.lacquerbox.com /TSAL1.HTM   (906 words)

  
 Roman Emperors - DIR Alexander Severus
M 27), was perhaps raised to the rank of Caesar by Alexander and was put to death in 227 on a charge of attempted murder of the emperor.
According to the HA life, Alexander was a "good" person, and his mother certainly attempted to guide him well, but much of the last decade of his reign was preoccupied with serious military threats against the empire's prestige, nay existence.
Perhaps the greatest service which Alexander furnished Rome, certainly at the beginning of his reign, was the return to a sense of sanity and tradition after the madness and fanaticism of Elagabalus.
www.roman-emperors.org /alexsev.htm   (2083 words)

  
 Gold Juppiter Waiting I (The Old Emperor)
Maximinus, the declared emperor by his soldiers, carefully readjusted his purple cloak and went for his white steed.
Alexander, trembling from fear, saw this and without turning his back to the enemy, walked back into the door with the few senators that were near him.
The soldiers cheered the new emperor and the eight-foot tall Thracian grinned from ear to ear on his large horse.
www.ancientworlds.net /aw/Post/119139   (1355 words)

  
 Kate Pickering's BA Essay
Alexander was born in 1777 and succeeded to the throne in 1801.
The arbitrary treatment endured by Alexander on the parade ground at the hands of his father and the notorious Arakcheev had taught him to behave in with equal barbarity in the military sphere, and allowed him years later to be blind to the extraordinary cruelty of his own military colonies.
Presniakov, A. Emperor Nicholas I of Russia: The Apogee of Autocracy 1825-1855.
www.columbia.edu /~kmp30/ba.html   (14237 words)

  
 The State Hermitage Museum: Hermitage News
Opening of the memorial plaque and the bust of Emperor Alexander II The study was constructed to the design of Giacomo Quarenghi for Alexander Pavlovich, the future Emperor Alexander I, in 1791.
Emperor Alexander II used a small folding bed when he slept in his study.
The Emperor was laid on the bed facing the window, but without regaining consciousness he died at 3.
www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/11/b2003/hm11_5_3.html   (184 words)

  
 Julia Mamaea
Mamaea's first marriage may have been to a former consul, and after his death, she was allowed to retain the senatorial rank, even when she later -during the reign of her uncle Septimius Severus (emperor 193-211) married to an equestrian named Gessius Marcianus.
To celebrate this, the young caesar changed his name into Severus Alexander - which connected him with Caracalla, who was famous for his admiration of Alexander the Great and was popular among the soldiers.
In 232/233, the emperor and Julia Mamaea were in Antioch, and next year, the emperor could celebrate his Persian triumph in Rome.
www.livius.org /jo-jz/julia/julia_mamaea.html   (948 words)

  
 Book 12, Chapter 19
Yet, thinking of his wife and son, the Emperor, before attempting this great enterprise, sent an order with the utmost secrecy to his brother, Prince Joseph, lieutenant-general of the Empire, requiring him to put them in a place of safety in case the danger should become imminent.
The Emperor invited him to follow him to Doulevent, where he gave him a verbal message for the Emperor of Austria, while Colonel Galbois was commissioned to carry a letter to that monarch which the Emperor had had written to him by the Duc de Vicenza.
The Emperor moved on the latter city, thinking that it was Prince Schwarzenberg he had against him; as he was on the point of arriving, he learned that it was no longer the Austrian generalissimo whom he had fought, but only one of his lieutenants, Count Witzingerode.
www.napoleonic-literature.com /Book_12/V4C19.htm   (2094 words)

  
 PART ONE
After the imperial mantle was taken from the coffin and carried to the altar, the new Emperor and his brothers carried the coffin on their shoulders to the tomb.
And if some of Alexander's youthful ardor toward her had cooled and there had been some talk at court about him and a flirtatious lady-in-waiting to the Empress, still he often relied on Maria for advice and support.
The Emperor's crowning of himself and his wife, as well as other aspects of the ceremony, symbolized the power of the Autocrat of the Russian Empire and the fact that he was responsible to no man, only to God.
www.emich.edu /public/history/moss/atpt1.htm   (17405 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Alexander [SOUNDTRACK]: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Put the saga of history's greatest overachiever -- Macedonian emperor Alexander the Great had conquered 90% of the pre-Christian world before his death at 32 -- in the hands of Hollywood's favorite over-reacher, Oliver Stone, and the result is three-hours of epic blood 'n' bathos.
Alexander, King of Macedon, Captain General of the Greeks, Shahanshah of Persia, Lord of Asia, son of Zeus-Ammon, Iskander Gojastak (Alexander the Cursed), Dhu L'Kairnan (the two horned), Alexander the Great.
Alexander's OST has "Welcome to Greece" written all over it so you can't really criticize it, being like a colossesus.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Alexander Severus
He was the son of Genessius Marcianus and Julia Mammaea, and was known in youth as Alexianus.
When Elagabalus, his cousin and father by adoption, was murdered in 222, Alexander succeeded to the imperial throne.
Her son Alexander was certainly very favorable to the Christians.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/13743a.htm   (464 words)

  
 Russia Engages the World - NYPL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
During the reign of Alexander I, Russia reached the zenith of its engagement with the other European states.
In 1807, Emperor Alexander and Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor, 1804–14/15) reached an agreement that effectively acknowledged Russia and France as the two greatest powers on the continent and, given the geopolitics of the day, in the world.
That quest ended in disastrous defeat, and Alexander led the allied army into Paris, unseating his rival.
dlc.nypl.org /russia.nypl.org/history5/intro.html   (181 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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 History
In those dangerous circumstances, his abilities, which had not earlier been honed, proved inadequate.
M 479), is mentioned in HA Alexander 20.3, but is probably fictitious.
This file may be copied on the condition that the entire contents, including the header and this copyright notice, remain intact.
www.severusalexander.com /History.htm   (2056 words)

  
 Alexander III --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Alexander III, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, 19th century; in the collection of Mrs.
By courtesy of Hillwood, Washington, D.C. Russian in full Aleksandr Aleksandrovich emperor of Russia from 1881 to 1894, opponent of representative government, and supporter of Russian nationalism.
He adopted programs, based on the concepts of Orthodoxy, autocracy, and narodnost (a belief in the Russian people), that included the Russification of national minorities in the Russian Empire…
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9005598?tocId=9005598   (102 words)

  
 Emperor Alexander - GFXartist.com - Served over 20,000,000 artworks
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 SAC 1855-1903
<>1856mr30:Russian Emperor Alexander II advised Moscow nobles, "It is better to abolish serfdom from above than to await the time when it will begin to abolish itself from below" [VSB,3:589; DPH:282] These assemblies had been created in the time of Catherine II, and now entered into their most brilliant yet futile period of political action
Russian political exile Alexander Herzen published his influential journal of opinion and political news, Kolokol [The Bell] until his death.
<>1865ja11:Moscow noble assembly addressed Alexander II with request that he complete the zemstvo reforms "by calling together a general assembly of elected representatives from the Russian land".
www.uoregon.edu /~kimball/sac.1855.1903.htm   (12212 words)

  
 The Alexander Palace Time Machine Bios - Alexander II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Alexander Palace Time Machine Bios - Alexander II Return to the Main Menu
Emperor Alexander II This page is temporarily unavailable.
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www.alexanderpalace.org /palace/AlexanderII.html   (88 words)

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