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Alexander II

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Alexander II 1818-1881.
Czar of Russia (1855-1881) who emancipated the serfs in 1861.
Alexander II
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1. (Biographies / Alexander (1198-1249) M, Scottish, POLITICS: hereditary ruler) 1198-1249, king of Scotland (1214-49), son of William (the Lion)
2. (Biographies / Alexander (1818-1881) M, Russian, POLITICS: hereditary ruler) 1818-81, tsar of Russia (1855-81), son of Nicholas I, who emancipated the serfs (1861). He was assassinated by the Nihilists
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Noun1.Alexander IIAlexander II - the son of Nicholas I who, as czar of Russia, introduced reforms that included limited emancipation of the serfs (1818-1881)
Alexander the Liberator, Czar Alexander II
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


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The assassination of Czar Alexander II in 1881 led to reprisals against Russia's Jews that caused several hundred thousand of them to emigrate to America and Western Europe.
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