Alexander II, Tsar of Russia

Standard Name: Alexander II,, Tsar of Russia

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Literary responses Hesba Stretton
This work, HS 's greatest success, helped establish her name as a byword for Evangelical fiction for children and the newly literate.
Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research.
190: 312
Perhaps the most famous response to Jessica's First Prayer is that...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Selina Bunbury
The work relates her visits to St Petersburg and Moscow, her impressions of the Kremlin, her attendance at a Russian wedding and at the coronation of Alexander II , and her voyage to Helsingfors...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anna Leonowens
In her article she applauds Czar Alexander II for freeing the Russian serfs.
Dow, Leslie Smith. Anna Leonowens: A Life Beyond The King and I. Pottersfield.
76
She also reports on the village schools. She describes female students (who seem to be a somewhat dampened variety of the...

Timeline

March 1855: Tsar Nicholas I died, and was succeeded by...

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March 1855

Tsar Nicholas I died, and was succeeded by his son Alexander II .

1861: Alexander II of Russia issued the Edict of...

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1861

Alexander II of Russia issued the Edict of Emancipation, granting freedom and property to some twenty million Russian serfs.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold.
214

January 1863: Nationalists revolted for independence in...

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January 1863

Nationalists revolted for independence in Poland, but the insurrection—led largely by students and middle-class urban folk—was put down by the Russian army.

1880: The Will of the People (a secret terrorist...

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1880

The Will of the People (a secret terrorist group in Russia formed of revolutionaries) blew up a room in the Winter Palace, St Petersburg, but Tsar Alexander II escaped.

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.

23 February 1917, Old Style: Russia's February Revolution began on what...

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23 February 1917, Old Style

Russia's February Revolution began on what was in other countries 8 March, because Russia was still using the Julian calendar. It began in Petrograd or St Petersburg, when thousands of housewives and factory women demonstrated...

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