John Tenniel. Cartoon. Punch. March 11, 1855 After Czar Nicholas I died on March 2, 1855, his son, Alexander II, succeeded him on the throne. Here Alexander is shown inheriting the war started by his ...

Soviet forces under Stalin’s orders deported nearly 200,000 Crimean Tatars, the peninsula’s native population, to Central ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday unveiling a monument to the tsar in the Crimean city of Yalta. Putin called Alexander III a prominent politician and patriot who bore personal ...

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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 ...