The assassination of Alexander II of Russia in 1881 is depicted. A dozen years passed before the next attempt. On April 2, 1879, as the czar took his customary morning stroll, Alexander Solovyov ...

ST. PETERSBURG, May 7.--A curious change has come over Russia in the last few years. When I left St. Petersburg three years ago the kind, liberal-minded Czar Alexander II. was gradually lifting ...

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.

In “Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar,” Edvard Radzinsky tells how one of history’s first terrorist organizations thwarted Russia’s great chance for democracy in the mid-19th century.

The mayor’s father, known in exile as Dmitry Romanovsky-Ilyinsky, was the Grand Duke Dmitry, grandson of Czar Alexander II, the reformer who abolished serfdom in 1861.

Before Lincoln Issued the Emancipation Proclamation, This Russian Czar Freed 20 Million Serfs The parallels between the U.S. president and Alexander II, both of whom fought to end servitude in ...

This undated photo shows Czar Nicholas II of Russia, far left, and his family. ... Emperor Alexander II, who was killed by radical revolutionaries on March 1, 1881." ...

Czar Alexander III and his wife, Maria Feodorovna, posed for a photo in about 1885 with their children, including Nicholas II, the future czar, standing in back. Alexander went by the title ...

Maria Feodorovna initially was betrothed to Czar Alexander II's son, Grand Duke Nicholas Alexandrovich, but he died when the princess was 17. In his will, he asked that she marry his brother ...