Tsar Alexander II

I was pretty sure it was Tsar Alexander II, who I knew from my studies was a moderate reformer—by absolute-ruler standards—in mid-nineteenth-century Russia.

Edge Jeffery Deaver 2010

Dagmar, for her part, became engaged, in 1864, to Nicholas, eldest son and heir of Tsar Alexander II, but her fiancé died the following year.

Archive 2009-06-01 Matterhorn 2009

In 1881, in the wake of the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, pogroms and anti-Jewish harassment began to spread, primarily in the south of Russia.

Yiddish: Women's Participation in Eastern European Yiddish Press (1862-1903). 2009

Dagmar, for her part, became engaged, in 1864, to Nicholas, eldest son and heir of Tsar Alexander II, but her fiancé died the following year.

Empress Dagmar Matterhorn 2009

A century before her birth, the territory was part of the Russian Empire under Tsar Alexander II.

Marcia DeSanctis: What I Learned in Grad School 2008

The Cantonist laws were ended in 1856 by Tsar Alexander II, almost as soon as he came to power.

In Those Days The Story of an Old Man Jehudah Steinberg

I dreaded especially the terrible Nihilists who had killed Tsar Alexander II, so good and kind, as I had been taught.

My Disillusionment in Russia Goldman, Emma, 1869-1940 1923

The Dutch abolished slavery in 1863 and in the same year Tsar Alexander II returned to his serfs that liberty which had been taken away from them more than two centuries before.

The Story of Mankind 1921

The Cantonist laws were ended in 1856 by Tsar Alexander II, almost as soon as he came to power.

In Those Days Steinberg, Jehudah 1915

The Courtyard was owned by Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, the son of Tsar Alexander II, who built it in 1890.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011