Alexander I

Alexander I ¹ 1777-1825.

Czar of Russia (1801-1825) whose plans to liberalize his country's government were forestalled by wars with Napoleon I.

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Alexander I ² Originally Alexander O·bre·no·vi  (-brn-vch) 1876-1903.

King of Serbia (1889-1903) whose efforts to increase his power at the expense of the national assembly led to his assassination.

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Alexander I ³ 1888-1934.

King of Yugoslavia (1921-1934) who unified the peoples of Serbia, Croatia, and Slovenia (1929) and was assassinated by Croatian separatists.

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Alexander I - the czar of Russia whose plans to liberalize the government of Russia were unrealized because of the wars with Napoleon (1777-1825) Aleksandr Pavlovich, Czar Alexander I Russia - a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917