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Alexander I

noun

  1. Saint, pope a.d. 106?–115.

  2. Aleksandr Pavlovich, 1777–1825, czar of Russia 1801–25.

  3. Alexander ObrenovichorAleksandar Obrenović, 1876–1903, king of Serbia 1889–1903.

  4. 1888–1934, king of Yugoslavia 1921–34 (son of Peter I of Serbia).



Alexander I

noun

  1. c. 1080–1124, king of Scotland (1107–24), son of Malcolm III

  2. 1777–1825, tsar of Russia (1801–25), who helped defeat Napoleon and formed the Holy Alliance (1815)

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Long-banished literary works such as Boris Pasternak’s “Doctor Zhivago,” Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn’s “The Gulag Archipelago” and George Orwell’s totalitarian allegory, “Animal Farm,” were published for the first time in the Soviet Union.

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Organizers planned to march from the city’s Alexanderplatz — a large square named after Russian Tsar Alexander I — to a site near the Brandenburg Gate.

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It had a bell tower commemorating Czar Alexander I’s victory over Napoleon.

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Czar Alexander I later declared he would drink nothing other than Clicquot’s champagne.

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“Miserable. But the pain itself is fading. I told Alexander I wanted to quit that night. I must not have meant it. I only wanted a reaction from him.”

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