The United States formally secured the acquisition of the vast Alaska territory from Russia on Oct. 18, 1867. The data is ...

Catherine Dolgorukov and Tsar Alexander II were married for 1 year before Tsar Alexander II died, leaving behind his partner and 4 children. Russian Socialite Catherine Dolgorukov was born on 14th ...

Maria Of Hesse and Tsar Alexander II were married for 39 years before Maria Of Hesse died, leaving behind her partner and 6 children. German Royal Maria Of Hesse was born Empress Maria Alexandrovna of ...

Tsar Alexander II oversaw a set of reforms which held out the prospect of modernising Russia but whose failure paved the way for revolution. Alexander II’s ‘great reforms’ stand out as among the most ...

On October 18, 1867, the flag of Russia at the governor’s house in Sitka, Alaska was lowered, a United States flag rose in ...

April-May: Following the assassination of Czar Alexander II in Russia, Jews are subjected to pogroms and violent attacks. Rumors circulate that the Czar's assassins were Jewish radicals.

Four years later, slavery in the USA was similarly declared unlawful by presidential order. Tsar Alexander II (1855-81) shared with his father, Nicholas I, a conviction that American slavery was ...

Hryniewiecki and his accomplices believed that the assassination of Alexander II could provoke a political or social revolution to overthrow the tsarist autocracy. Many historians consider the ...

Her son Paul I restored the succession of oldest sons to the throne, which continued through Alexander III and Nicholas II, the last tsar. Alexander III (ruled 1881 Ü 1894) began a web of ...

Famously known as “the yellow brick road”, Tsar Osvoboditel translates as “Liberator King” and refers to the Russian Tsar Alexander II. Thanks to the war he waged against Turkey, Bulgaria was also ...

but the working class was primed for insurrection Read this first in a series of columns chronicling what led to that 1917 cataclysm Czar Alexander II may have freed the serfs, but his war against ...