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	Alexander Hertzen - LoveToKnow 1911
		ALEXANDER HERTZEN (1812-1870), Russian author, was born at Moscow, a very short time before the occupation of that city by the French.
		Then the mother of the infant Alexander (a young German Protestant of Jewish extraction from Stuttgart, according to A. von Wurzbach), only seventeen years old, and quite unable to speak Russian, was forced to seek shelter for some time in a peasant's hut.
		There he remained till the visit to that city of the hereditary grand-duke (afterwards Alexander II.), accompanied by the poet Joukofsky, led to his being allowed to quit Viatka for Vladimir, where he was appointed editor of the official gazette of that city.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Alexander_Hertzen (896 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Alexander II of Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Marie of Hesse Princess Maximilienne Wilhelmine Marie of Hesse and the Rhine (8 August 1824-8 June 1880) was a princess of Grand Ducal Hesse and, as Marie Alexandrovna, Empress consort of Alexander II of Russia.
		Alexander II resolved to try the effect of some moderate liberal reforms in an attempt to quell the revolutionary agitation, and for this purpose he instituted a ukase for creating special commissions, composed of high officials and private personages who should prepare reforms in various branches of the administration.
		On the morning of April 20, 1879, Alexander II was walking towards the Square of the Guards Staff and faced Alexander Soloviev, a 33 year-old former student.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alexander-II-of-Russia (1475 words)

	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 (3796 words)

	Alexander II of Russia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander gave evidence of a kind disposition and a tender-heartedness which were considered out of place in one destined to become a military autocrat.
		Alexander II resolved to try the effect of some moderate liberal reforms in an attempt to quell the revolutionary agitation, and for this purpose he caused an ukase to be prepared creating special commissions, composed of high officials and private personages who should prepare reforms in various branches of the administration.
		On the morning of April 20, 1879, Alexander II was walking towards the Square of the Guards Staff and faced Alexander Soloviev, a 33 year-old former student.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_II_of_Russia (1961 words)

	Alexander Palace Time Machine - Nicholas II
		The Alexander Palace was the site of his birth, where his mother delivered him in her plush Blue Bedroom on the sixth of May in 1868.
		Alexander III was an impressive man, who dominated others by his size and powerful personally.
		Alexander's doctors advised a trip to the gentle climate of the Crimea.
	www.alexanderpalace.org /palace/AlexPalaceNRbio.html (1561 words)

	boys clothing: Russian royalty--Alexander II
		Alexander II in 1841 married Maria of Hessen-Darmstadt (Maria Alexandrovna).
		Alexander II in 1841 as Tsareivitch or Crown Prince married Maria of Hessen-Darmstadt (Maria Alexandrovna).
		Alexander II was crowned in the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin on August 26, 1856.
	histclo.hispeed.com /royal/rus/royal-rusa2.htm (1829 words)

	Coins & Medals of Imperial Russia: Alexander II
		Alexander II came to the throne better prepared than any other nineteenth-century Russian emperor.
		In 1861 he abolished the servitude of the Russian peasants, known as serfdom, in a decree that, although not wholly satisfying to either the nobles or the peasants, was probably the most statesmanlike possible at the time.
		If one looks only at the rubles struck during the quarter-century of Alexander II’s reign, it would be easy to think that this period was fiscally and numismatically a stagnant time.
	www.library.yale.edu /slavic/coins/html/alexander2.html (348 words)

	Alexander II of Russia : Russian Emperor Alexander II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Alexander II of Russia : Russian Emperor Alexander II www.eurofreehost.com
		Alexander (Aleksandr) II of Russia (April 29, 1818 - March 13, 1881) was the Emperor (Tsar) of Russia from March 2, 1855 until his assassination.
		Born the eldest son of Nicholas I of Russia, Alexander's early life gave little indication of his potential, and up to the time of his accession in 1855, few imagined that he would be known to posterity as a great reformer.
	www.eurofreehost.com /ru/Russian_Emperor_Alexander_II.html (350 words)

	The Russian Monarchy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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)

	Bulgaria.com - History, Rulers of Bulgaria - Prince Alexander I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He had ascended the throne with the blessing of his relative, the Russian Emperor Alexander II, but his successor Alexander III felt personal contempt for the Bulgarian prince.
		Alexander I realized the significance of the task to restore the country's unity after it had been fragmented at the Berlin Congress in the summer of 1878.
		The attempt of his supporters to restore him to the throne was foiled by the unyielding opposition of Emperor Alexander III.
	www.bulgaria.com /history/rulers/palexander.html (769 words)

	OUR BOOKSHELF
		The author is a well-known Russian historian, who rendered the biographies of Russian generals from the period of Peter the Great (Peter I) to the first half of the XIX-th century.
		Denis Davidov is a prominent Russian poet, writer, a participant of the Napoleonic wars, a hero of the war of 1812, the commander of a partisan detachment.
		The description of the battle at Borodino village, that was happened on August,26,1812 between the Russian Imperial Army under the command of General of Infantry Prince Golinishev-Kutuzov and the United French Army consisted of troops from all states of Western Europe under the command of Emperor Napoleon.
	www.100megsfree4.com /rusgeneral/book0.htm (1867 words)

	The State Russian Museum. editions.
		Russian and Soviet Photography in Swiss collections exhibition held by the Russian Museum.
		The catalogue is dated to the personal exhibition of one of the world-known German artists - Princess Ingeborg of Schleswig-Holstein, the great-great-granddaughter of the Russian Emperor Alexander II √ held in the Russian Museum.
		This catalogue is dated to the exhibition of Edward Steinberg held in the Russian Museum.
	www.rusmuseum.ru /eng/editions/cat_alb2004.html (1197 words)

	St. Petersburg, Russia on the road to capitalism (1840s to 1890s) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When Alexander II was crowned Russian Emperor, the country was still reeling with a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Anglo-Franco-Turkish coolition in the Crimean War.
		Alexander continued with military and legal reforms, involving the introduction of trial by jury, and a reform of the city administration of St. Petersburg, allowing a much higher degree of self-government.
		After a series of assassination attempts, on March 1 1881 Alexander II was fatally wounded and died the same day and the magnificent Church of Our Savior on Spilled Blood (1883-1907) was built in his memory on the exact spot of his assassination.
	www.saint-petersburg.com /history/1840-90.asp (327 words)

	Cathedral of Our Savior on the Spilled Blood
		One of the most beautiful cathedrals of Saint Petersburg, the Savior-on-the-Blood was erected on the place where Russian Emperor Alexander II was murdered on the 1st of March, 1881.
		The cathedral was constructed in the style of the 16th-17th century Russian architecture and has a lot in common with the Church of St. Basil the Blessed that stands on the Red Square in Moscow.
		On the socle of the cathedral, there are 20 granite desks, dedicated to the major events and reforms of the ruling of Alexander II, and on the belfry there are coats of arms of all the regions and provinces of Russia.
	www.saint-petersburg-hotels.com /spasnakrovi.htm (516 words)

	2e. The Russian Empire under Alexander II [Beyond Books - Modern European History]
		When Alexander II took power, Russia was an agricultural nation that had been controlled by autocratic tsars who trumpeted Slavic cultural superiority, feared liberal revolutions, and preserved the feudal injustices of serfdom.
		The reign of Alexander II was marked by a flourishing cultural life.
		On March 13, 1881, in the midst of this instability, Alexander II died at the hands of a Polish terrorist, thus ending a quarter century of rule that helped bring Russia into the modern age.
	www.beyondbooks.com /eur12/2e.asp (998 words)

	Excursions in Saint-Petersburg and its suburbs - PREMIER-VOYAGE Russian Travel Company
		The Church on Spilled Blood was constructed in the tradition of Russian church architecture and the shapes of 16th century Moscow architecture were widely used in its design.
		The Church on Spilled Blood was erected in the very place, where on March 1, 1881 the Russian Emperor Alexander II was mortally wounded by a terrorist.
		Throughout its history was the residence of the Russian emperors Paul I nicknamed 'the most romantic Russian Emperor', and Alexander III.
	travel.inc.ru /services/excurs (1929 words)

	Russian Paintings Gallery - article: The Immortal Itinerants (Peredvizhniki) - part I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This was the first time in the history of the Russian world of art that the subject matter was rich and expansive.
		The love of the Russian people for their country and its nature was deified, and for the first time, paintings were free of social prejudice.
		The great Russian art critic Vladimir Stasov defined this aspiration as follows: "The artists striving to unite to setup their own society were not doing it for the purpose of creating beautiful paintings and statues for the sole purpose of earning money.
	www.russianpaintings.net /articles/article9.htm (2568 words)

	Britain France Russia Crimean War 1853-1856
		After the Russian Black Sea fleet destroyed a Turkish squadron at Sinope, on the Turkish side of the Black Sea, the British and French fleets entered the Black Sea on Jan. 3, 1854, to protect Turkish transports.
		In September 1854 the allies landed troops in Russian Crimea, on the north shore of the Black Sea, and began a year-long siege of the Russian fortress of Sevastopol.
		It did awaken the new Russian emperor Alexander II (who succeeded Nicholas I in March 1855) to the need to overcome Russia's backwardness in order to compete successfully with the other European powers.
	www.onwar.com /aced/data/cite/crimean1853.htm (725 words)

	The history of homeopathy in the Russian Empire - Alexander Kotok, M.D.
		Apart from this, one should note that Russian homeopaths never had sufficient funds to build and maintain any serious hospital facilities like those of the allopaths; the Alexander II homeopathic hospital in St. Petersburg was the only exception.
		Moreover, all the Russian military administrators, starting with the governor-general of that period in Caucasus, General Alexey Ermolov (1777-1861), and members of his family, were treated homeopathically by Dr. Pribyl’.
		A prominent Russian physician, Dr. Yacov Chistovich, left his diary where he strongly criticized Nicholas I and his son, Emperor Alexander II, for their "blind atomistic dispositions".
	homeoint.org /books4/kotok/2300.htm (3649 words)

	Church of Our Savior on the Spilled Blood in St. Petersburg, Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		However, in the second half of his reign Alexander II was no longer keen on continuing reforms.
		After a series of attempts on his life, including an explosion in the Winter Palace and the derailment of a train, Alexander II was assassinated by revolutionaries, who threw a bomb at his royal carriage.
		For all the "Russian look" of the church, its main architect A. Parland was not even a Russian by origin.
	www.cityvision2000.com /city_tour/spas.htm (340 words)

	Russian Libertarian Movement Founded
		Didenko explained: "We believe that the liberation of the Russian people is the only way for us to survive as a nation.
		But it's really a difficult task because Russians were slaves for exactly 1,000 years from Rurik's inauguration in the year 862 right up to 1861.
		That year Russian Emperor Alexander II signed The Manifest of 19 February which provided ordinary Russians with the property rights for the first time in our history.
	www.isil.org /resources/fnn/2003summer/russian-libertarians.html (580 words)

	ROSIZO: Our Friendly Relations With Our Good Neighbour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He was assigned to accompany the envoy of the Russian Emperor to Enreokhvan — the palace of the Japanese Emperor, 12 miles from Yokohama in the town of Edo.
		The purpose of the visit to the Country of the Rising Sun by the envoy of the Russian Tsar Alexander II was successfully accomplished.
		Alexander III remembered the great value the trip all over Russia had for him, when in 1869 being the heir of the Russian throne he had travelled to see the real life of his partials.
	www.rosizo.ru /eng/japan/visit.html (4891 words)

	Moscow - Sightseeing
		Russian history and culture dating back to the ancient times to the present day are represented by 4,5 million articles and 15 million sheets of unique documents.
		Daniel, the son of Alexander Nevsky, achieved this with the birth of the Moscow Principality.
		The Mecca of the Russian Orthodox Church - The Trinity Sergius Monastery, the Saint Joseph of the Volokolamsk Monastery, and the New Jerusalem Monastery, are all significant to the spiritual history of Russia.
	www.vgp.com /moscow/sightseeing.html (4463 words)

	The State Hermitage Museum: Collection Highlights
		Developing national self-awareness led Russians to take an interest in their national history and culture, and in contemporary art.
		Numerous art galleries were set up and private collections appeared, the most famous being the Tretyakov collection in Moscow and the Museum of Alexander III in St. Petersburg (most items for the latter came from the Gallery of Russian Painting in the Hermitage).
		The Hermitage's collection of items from this era is extensive and varied, its nucleus formed by portraits of representatives of all levels of Russian society: formal portraits of members of the imperial family, soldiers and statesmen, merchants, manufacturers, and bankers.
	www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/03/hm3_6_6.html (587 words)

	CRA_didyouknow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Russian sailors and officers paraded on Broadway and in San Francisco and were greeted by the jubilant Americans as allies.
		that during the Anglo-French onslaught on Russia (1853-1855, the "Crimean war"), the American consul in Hawaii informed the Russians when an Anglo-French squadron was sighted in the Pacific, and an American whaler sent word when the squadron approached Petropavlovsk (a Russian harbor on the Pacific coast, at the southeastern shore of the Kamchatka peninsula).
		that after the defeat of Napoleon, that was achieved to a large degree due to the efforts by the Russian army, England was forced to establish contacts with Russia and treat Emperor Alexander I respectfully.
	www.russian-americans.org /cra_didyouknow.htm (1142 words)

	Franz Xaver Winterhalter.Biography. - Olga's Gallery
		Russian aristocratic visitors to Paris also liked to have their portraits executed by the famous master.
		Daughter of the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, Louis II, before adopting the Orthodox form of Christianity her name was Maximiliana-Wilghelmina-Augusta-Sophia-Maria.
		Napoleon III, Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (1808-1873) emperor of France, born in Paris, the third son of Louis Bonaparte, king of Holland, and nephew of Napoleon I. On the death of the Duke of Reichstadt, only son of Napoleon I, in 1832, he became the head of the Napoleonic dynasty.
	www.abcgallery.com /W/winterhalter/winterhalterbio.html (554 words)

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