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 ...

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 ...

Her son Paul I restored the succession of oldest sons to the throne, which continued through Alexander III and Nicholas II, the last tsar. Alexander III (ruled 1881 Ü 1894) began a web of ...

The 18th Century "John the Baptist" icon and the letter of Russian Emperor Alexander II to Francis II became part of the collection of the State Historical Museum in 2018 MOSCOW, January 14.

Alexander II has the honour of being the only Scottish king to take his invasion force all the way to the south coast of England. Whilst still a teenager, Alexander backed a rebellion of northern ...

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 ...