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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 II - the son of Nicholas I who, as czar of Russia, introduced reforms that included limited emancipation of the serfs (1818-1881)Alexander 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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Ralph Epperson in The Unseen Hand, Czar Alexander II of Russia sent significant contingents of his naval fleet to both our East and West Coasts to aid the Union during the War Between the States.
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The previous castle, constructed under Alexander II of Scotland in 1214, was destroyed by British forces in 1719 and the building lay in ruins until the 20th century.
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