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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Russian Tsar Alexander III
		Alexander was the second son of Alexander II and in natural disposition he bore little resemblance to his soft-hearted, liberal minded father, and still less to his refined, philosophic, sentimental, chivalrous, yet cunning grand-uncle Alexander I, who coveted the title of "the first features and somewhat sluggish movements.
		Alexander II had lost much of the reforming zeal which distinguished the first decade of his reign, and had no longer the energy required to undertake the task suggested to him.
		On the 13th of March 1881 Alexander II was assassinated by a band of Nihilists, and the autocratic power passed to the hands of his son.
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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Russian Tsar Alexander II
		Alexander (Aleksandr) II of Russia (April 29, 1818 - March 13, 1881) was the Emperor (Tsar) of Russia from March 2, 1855 until his assassination.
		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 visited England, however, in 1839, and in the years immediately preceding his accession he was entrusted with several missions to the courts of Berlin and Vienna.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ru/Russian_Tsar_Alexander_II (2427 words)

	Alexander Palace Time Machine - Alexander III
		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 (1306 words)

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		Alexander II would be the second monarch to abolish capital punishment, a penalty which is still legal (although not practiced) in 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.
		The monument to Alexander II "The Liberator" at the Senate Square in Helsinki was erected in 1894.
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	Alexander Palace Time Machine - Alexander II
		The reign of Alexander II is marked by contrasts; while Alexander II was known as the "Tsar-Liberator" for his emancipation of the Russian serfs, he also reigned over one of the most repressive periods in Russian history and faced numerous attempts on his life, ultimately resulting in his assassination.
		Alexander II came to the throne in the midst of the Crimean War, a devastating military conflict for Russia, in which troops were decimated, and the shortcomings of the Russian military clearly evidenced.
		Alexander announced that individual serfdom would be eliminated and all peasants would be allowed to purchase land from their landlords.
	www.alexanderpalace.org /palace/AlexIIbio.html (1349 words)

	Alexander III of Russia Summary
		Alexander III (1845-1894) was emperor of Russia from 1881 to 1894.
		Descendants of Alexander II and Marie of Hesse and by Rhine
		Alexander deprecated what he considered undue foreign influence in general, and German influence in particular, so the adoption of genuine national principles was off in all spheres of official activity, with a view to realizing his ideal of a homogeneous Russia—homogeneous in language, administration and religion.
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		The future Alexander II was the eldest son of the grand duke Nikolay Pavlovich (who, in 1825, became the emperor Nicholas I) and his wife, Alexandra Fyodorovna (who, before her marriage to the Grand Duke and baptism into the Orthodox Church, had been the princess Charlotte of Prussia).
		Alexander's youth and early manhood were overshadowed by the overpowering personality of his dominating father, from whose authoritarian principles of government he was never to free himself.
		Alexander II, like his uncle Alexander I before him (who was educated by a Swiss republican tutor, a follower of Rousseau), was to turn into a "liberalizing," or at any rate humanitarian, autocrat.
	www.bahai-library.com /?file=wilmette_malik_russia_biography.html (1987 words)

	Assess the reign of Alexander II
		Assess the reign of Alexander II Assess the reign of Alexander II.
		Alexander II had always been greatly influenced by Zhukovsky, and following the 1848 revolutions, when Alexander was acting as Regent, even Zhukovsky, the great humanist, turned to reaction and advised the banning of the mere word 'reform'.
		Alexander II was assassinated by revolutionary terrorists who mistakenly believed that his death would trigger more far-reaching reforms, but instead there was a reactionary backlash against reform.
	www.pvhs.chico.k12.ca.us /~bsilva/projects/russia/Alex_II/asess_caldwell.htm (4388 words)

	Monument to Emperor Alexander II Found… On the River Bottom?
		According to the archives information, the monument to emperor Alexander II in his full height was placed in the historical centre of Veliky Novgorod at the turn of the 20th century.
		The serfdom was abolished during the reign of Alexander II, and then a number of bourgeois reforms - the Zemstvo, judicial and military ones, which made for the development of capitalism in Russia, were carried out.
		Alexander II was killed by the members of clandestine terrorist organization of revolutionaries Narodnaya Volya on March 1, 1881.
	nyjtimes.com /Stories/2005/MonumentToTsarAlexanderIIFoundOnRiverBottom.htm (397 words)

	Alexander II of Russia Summary
		on Alexander, II Alexander II (1818-1881) was emperor of Russia from 1855 to 1881.
		Born in 1818, he was the eldest son of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia, daughter of Frederick William III of Prussia and Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
		Alexander could be said to be a brave man after allowing universities to give lectures on topics such as law and government but this was all part of the new freedoms allocated to the education system.
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	Alexander II of Russia
		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.
		Alexander visited England, however, in 1839, and in the years immediately preceding his accession he was entrusted with several missions to the courts of Berlin and Vienna.
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	Alexander the Great: picture of alexander the great, alexander great ii last tsar, alexander the great web quest
		In 332 BC–331 BC, Alexander was welcomed as a liberator in Egypt and was pronounced the son of Zeus by Egyptian priests of the god Ammon at the Oracle of the god at the Siwa Oasis in the Libyan desert.
		Alexander invited all the chieftains of the former satrapy of Gandhara, in the north of what is now Pakistan, to come to him and submit to his authority.
		Alexander the Great sometimes is identified in Persian and Arabic traditions sources as Dhul-Qarnayn, Arabic for the "Two-Horned One", possibly a reference to the appearance of a horn-headed figure that appears on coins minted during his rule and later imitated in ancient Middle Eastern coinage.
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	Dostoevsky's Intellectual Influences
		Alexander succeeded Nicholas I in 1855 and ruled Russia until his death in 1881.
		Alexander's reign was an era of reforms, the most important of which was the emancipation of the serfs in 1861.
		Dostoevsky was received in the court of Alexander II in the 1870s - twenty years after Alexander's father had sent the writer into exile.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~karamazo/influences.html (1117 words)

	Alexander II
		Alexander II Eldest son of Emperor Nicholas I, Alexander was born in Moscow on April 17, 1818, and came to the throne on February 19, 1855, after the death of his father.
		In 1841, Alexander II married Maria of Hessen-Darmstadt (Maria Alexandrovna).
		Alexander II was buried in the Cathedral of the St. Peter and St.
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	Tsar Alexander: Biography
		The future Alexander II was the eldest son of the grand duke Nikolay Pavlovich (who, in 1825, became the emperor Nicholas I) and his wife, Alexandra Fyodorovna (who, before her marriage to the Grand Duke and baptism into the Orthodox Church, had been the princess Charlotte of Prussia).
		Alexander's youth and early manhood were overshadowed by the overpowering personality of his dominating father, from whose authoritarian principles of government he was never to free himself.
		Alexander II, like his uncle Alexander I before him (who was educated by a Swiss republican tutor, a follower of Rousseau), was to turn into a "liberalizing," or at any rate humanitarian, autocrat.
	bahai-library.com /resources/tablets-notes/lawh-malik-rus/bio.html (1928 words)

	SparkNotes: The Russian Revolution (1917–1918): A Century of Unrest
		Alexander II - Son of Nicholas I; abolished feudalism in 1861; assassinated in 1881
		In 1861, Tsar Alexander II, Nicholas I’s eldest son and successor, formally abolished serfdom, freeing Russia’s serfs from indenture to landowners.
		Tsar Nicholas II, who had come to power in 1894, had never shown leadership skills or a particular desire to rule, but with the death of his father, Alexander III, the Russian crown was thrust upon him.
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	Alexander II
		Alexander became Tsar of Russia on the death of his father in 1855.
		Alexander announced that personal serfdom would be abolished and all peasants would be able to buy land from their landlords.
		Alexander's reforms did not satisfy liberals and radicals who wanted a parliamentary democracy and the freedom of expression that was enjoyed in the United States and most other European states.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /RUSalexander2.htm (2034 words)

	Tsar Alexander Cartoons
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	alexander great ii last tsar
		Alexander Alexander s behavior indicated, tsarn icoulai caviar neither for the first nor the last time, that events pare Alexander II unfavorably with Peter the Great as seen by Polish nobles, is pictured in Adam Mickiewicz s great epic poem Pan Tadeusz (Mr.Thaddeus).
		His reign was marked by a series of disasters, none of which he II was determined to rule as an autocrat in the manner of his father, Alexander III and his great was gathered during the making of The Great War and the and menu from the coronation of Nicholas II in 1896.
		These missioned by Alexander and Petersburg where her great-grandfather both Inheritors of Alexander the Great by G. These missioned by Alexander and Petersburg where her great-grandfather both Inheritors of Alexander the Great by G. Nicholas Tantzos Sister of Nicholas II By John Van Der Kiste A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander.
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	Masterpiece Theatre \| Anna Karenina \| A Tolstoy Timeline (text version)
		Leo sends a letter to the Tsar, warning that autocracy is doomed and pleading that he give the nation its freedom to avoid a civil war.
		Upon the death of Tsar Alexander I, reform-minded soldiers demand a constitution and support the ascension of Alexander's son Constantine to the throne.
		Alexander III falls victim to nephritis and is succeeded by Nicholas II, a weak ruler who resorts to increasingly autocratic measures to appear strong.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/anna/timeline_text.html (4161 words)

	Tsar Alexander: Biography
		The future Alexander II was the eldest son of the grand duke Nikolay Pavlovich (who, in 1825, became the emperor Nicholas I) and his wife, Alexandra Fyodorovna (who, before her marriage to the Grand Duke and baptism into the Orthodox Church, had been the princess Charlotte of Prussia).
		Alexander's youth and early manhood were overshadowed by the overpowering personality of his dominating father, from whose authoritarian principles of government he was never to free himself.
		Alexander II, like his uncle Alexander I before him (who was educated by a Swiss republican tutor, a follower of Rousseau), was to turn into a "liberalizing," or at any rate humanitarian, autocrat.
	bahai-library.org /resources/tablets-notes/lawh-malik-rus/bio.html (1928 words)

	Alexandrite, The Tsarstone Collectors Guide. Chapter 1: Insidious Siberian
		During this period, pressure was being exerted upon Alexander II to act more decisively and to take his reforms to their logical conclusion, - a parliament or a constitution, but he refused to go this far and gradually adopted a more reactionary stance.
		Ironically, Alexander II´s liberalization and shift to a policy of reaction later in his reign was vital in breeding the Russian revolutionary movement that ultimately brought the end to the Russian Imperial family and the fall of the Russian Empire.
		Alexander II was injured and his coachman advised him not to get out but he felt that his military dignity required him to see the wounded.
	www.multicolour.com /alexandrite/chapter1 (1333 words)

	HarpWeek: Cartoon of the Day
		In the wake of an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Tsar Alexander II of Russia, Harper's Weekly published this cartoon by Thomas Nast, which appeared over an article on Russian Nihilism.
		Alexander II came to power in February 1855 while Russia was embroiled in the Crimean War against Britain and her allies.
		Tsar Alexander was particularly concerned about the spread of Nihilism in Russia.
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	Tsar-Martyr Nicholas Ii And His Family 1 of 5
		Alexander was a man with a strong man who feared God and became one of Russia's great Tsars, though his reign was short (1881-1894).
		The young Tsar and Tsaritsa spent the majority of their time in seclusion and intense prayer, preparing themselves for the awesome responsibility of governing, with God's help, the largest nation in the world, which was the protector of the Orthodox Faith.
		The Tsar considered it his sacred duty to restore to Russia her ancient traditional culture, which had been abandoned by many of the "educated" classes in favour of modern, Western styles.
	www.orthodox.net /russiannm/nicholas-ii-tsar-martyr-and-his-family-01-of-05.html (3158 words)

	Bush's Books: Salt, Flu and Tsar Alexander II
		The book about Alexander II may have special relevance to Bush, who obtained an advance copy of the English translation scheduled for publication in November.
		Alexander, who ruled Russia from 1855 to 1881, was known as the "Tsar Liberator" because he freed 23 million Russian slaves in 1861, two years before Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
		Alexander became, in effect, the first world leader to declare a war on terror.
	www.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2005/08/17/205-teaser.html (675 words)

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