Czar Alexander II

While weighing the matter, a threatening letter from Czar Alexander II to William I, in which he called on Germany to support his Balkan policy, and said that if he refused peace could not last between their two countries, decided Bismarck in favour of Austria.

William of Germany Stanley Shaw

While weighing the matter, a threatening letter from Czar Alexander II to William I, in which he called on Germany to support his Balkan policy, and said that if he refused peace could not last between their two countries, decided Bismarck in favour of Austria.

William of Germany Shaw, Stanley 1913

In St. Petersburg, Czar Alexander II signed the famous manifesto with provisions on February 19, 1861, the act on liberation of the peasants.

NYT > Home Page By SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY 2011

The following remark by a public figure of the times of Czar Alexander II, one of Russia's most liberal-minded rulers, sums up the country's mainstream ideology in the 19th and much of the 20th centuries: "Reforms in Russia can only be initiated by the powers that be."

RIA Novosti 2010

There are multiple battle scenes and an audience with Czar Alexander II (who had emancipated the serfs in 1861 and would be assassinated in 1881).

Epinions Recent Content for Home 2009

Here's Abraham Lincoln on Bolshaya Pirogovskaya Street, larger than life, shaking hands with Czar Alexander II.

Russia remembers Lincoln as it marks the freeing of the serfs 2011

In 1873, Czar Alexander II was expanding his empire’s authority over the khanates of Central Asia, trying to bring the defiant hinterlands and overland trade routes under Russian control.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

In the same year Czar Alexander II visited London.

The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902