Kelly, Gary, and Edd Applegate, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 190. Gale Research, 1998.
190: 312
Alexander II Tsar of Russia
Standard Name: Alexander II,, Tsar of Russia
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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, 1991. 76 |
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
.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
207, 210
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, 1985.
214
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
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.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
217-18
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.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
331
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.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
331-3
Trager, James. The Women’s Chronology: A Year-by-Year Record, from Prehistory to the Present. Henry Holt, 1994.
318
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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