This often noisy exercise in projection is wholly dismissive, for example, of concerns that the man, as the conservative commentator Matthew Parris put it in The Times, is “a slob, a cheat, a ...

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 ...

He visited the Borodino Battle Museum founded in 1839 on the orders of Emperor Alexander II. The museum has about 2,600 exhibits, including a true-to-life battlefield model which depicts positions ...