The New Student's Reference Work/Alexander II

Alexander II, czar of Russia, born in 1818, succeeded his father Nicholas I as czar in 1855, during the Crimean war. By his establishment of schools and internal improvements he did more to build up Russia than any emperor since Peter the Great. He gained the name of “Liberator” by giving freedom to the serfs. He was assassinated in 1881.

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