Aleksandr II. Ego zhizn' i tsarstvovanie (Komp. 2kn) - Tatishchev Sergei Spiridonovich

Alexander II - the Russian emperor since 1855, which went down in history as a reformer tsar, under whose leadership was prepared and carried out a whole set of reforms: the abolition of serfdom, judicial, land, military and many other reforms that opened the way to the changes in the state and social order of the country. In the reign of Alexander II ended the accession to Russia of the Caucasus (1864), Kazakhstan (1865), most of Central Asia (1865-1881). A number of attempts were carried out on the life of Alexander II (1866, 1867, 1879, 1880), killed by the people. The author of this fundamental work saw his task in "to bring together numerous testimonies about individual moments and episodes of the life and activities of The Sovereign Alexander Nikolaevich and, complementing them with his own research, to compose an accurate and possibly complete pragmatic set of events of his reign and personal participation or influence on them by the emperor in the field of politics both internal and...