Alexander I
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Saint, pope a.d. 106?–115.
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Aleksandr Pavlovich, 1777–1825, czar of Russia 1801–25.
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Alexander ObrenovichorAleksandar Obrenović, 1876–1903, king of Serbia 1889–1903.
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1888–1934, king of Yugoslavia 1921–34 (son of Peter I of Serbia).
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c. 1080–1124, king of Scotland (1107–24), son of Malcolm III
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1777–1825, tsar of Russia (1801–25), who helped defeat Napoleon and formed the Holy Alliance (1815)
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“Every year, one or two or three statues were erected. But they didn’t honor Lenin or Stalin. The statues were of Alexander I, of Peter the Great, of Catherine, of Nicholas I.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
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.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 13, 2022
Alexander: I read James Webb, John Del Vecchio and Tim O’Brien and was motivated to join, when those books should have been shoving me away from it.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2021
Alexander I burned his own cities and fields in 1812 to deny their sustenance to Napoleon’s invading army.
From Washington Post • Oct. 20, 2020
“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.”
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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