Edvard Radzinsky’s “Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar” was one of three books President George W. Bush took with him to Texas on summer vacation this year. Given the prepublication publicity ...

The mountaineers leave the aul. by Pyotr Nikolayevich Gruzinsky (1837-1892) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons History has largely been kind to Alexander II, the Russian czar who freed the ...

Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar Edvard Radzinsky, , trans. from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis. . Free Press, $35 (462pp) ISBN 978-0-7432-7332-9 ...

Emperor Alexander II ascended to the throne on Sept. 7, 1856. Although he went down in history as a reformer, his actions were too little too late for the revolutionaries of late imperial Russia ...