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.

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 ...

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.

A new exhibition spotlights Natalia Pavlovna Paley, the granddaughter of a czar. She built a new life for herself in France ...

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 ...

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." ...

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 ...