Tsar Alexander II of Russia stood at the crossroads of history—after all, his reign paved the way to the fall of the Romanov empire. And when you look at his scandalous life, it’s no wonder ...

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 ...

"Also, samples for blood from the stains on the full-dress uniform of Emperor Alexander II, who was killed by radical revolutionaries on March 1, 1881," he said. After the extraction of samples ...

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 ...

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.