Among them is the blood-stained shirt of Czar Alexander II of Russia (Alexander the Liberator) which he wore in the last hours of his life before his assassination on 13 March 1881. The ceremony ...

This mounted portrait appeared in The Illustrated London News shortly after Czar Alexander II assumed the throne of Russia. John Tenniel. Cartoon. Punch. March 11, 1855 After Czar Nicholas I died on ...

When Tsar Alexander II of Russia ascended to the throne in 1855, he brought with him the romantic sensibility of his liberal education. His passion for decadent luxury and the finer things in life ...