During the last few years of ER
's life, British interest in the cruel and autocratic rule of Alexander III of Russia
(and in the continual ferment of agitation against it) produced a demand for...
Timeline
13 March 1881: Tsar Alexander II was assasinated in St Petersburg...
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13 March 1881
Tsar Alexander II
was assasinated in St Petersburg by a member of a Nihilist terrorist faction led by Sophia Perovskaya; his son Alexander III
succeeded him.
1887: Lenin's older brother Alexander Ulyanov was...
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1887
Lenin
's older brother Alexander Ulyanov was hanged after a failed attempt to assassinate Tsar Alexander III
.
1 November 1894: Tsar Alexander III died in the Crimea....
