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 ...

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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.

It’s been 158 years since Russia sold Alaska to the United States. So how did it happen — and how did this harsh, frozen territory become one of the wealthiest states in the country? More to the point ...

Rebecca Bettarini married George, the only son of Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna and Prince Franz Wilhelm of Prussia, and a third great-grandson of Emperor Alexander II of Russia, at St Isaac’s ...

But change was in the air. After the humiliating defeat of the Crimean War, the new Tsar, the reforming Alexander II, realised that if Russia was going to compete against the industrial powers in ...

It was introduced after the assassination of Alexander II in 1881 and was ... part of the Empire had become an enemy of the Tsar. During Nicholas II’s reign, the Black Hundreds was formed.