Alexander II

noun

1. died 1073, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1061–1073.

2. Aleksandr Nikolaevich, 1818–81, czar of Russia 1855–81.

Alexander II

noun

1. 1198–1249, king of Scotland (1214–49), son of William (the Lion)

2. 1818–81, tsar of Russia (1855–81), son of Nicholas I, who emancipated the serfs (1861). He was assassinated by the Nihilists

Example Sentences

While Jewish people had already been settling in the area, pogroms across Russia and neighbouring countries following the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881 saw more people arrive in an already-crowded part of town.

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The palace entertained Scots royalty with at least three charters being signed there by Alexander II in 1236.

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Lest the Confederacy open a maritime Pacific front, Czar Alexander II put one of his naval squadrons at Abraham Lincoln’s disposal.

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Russia’s loss in the Crimean War led to Emperor Alexander II’s liberal revolution in the 1850s.

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She looked out onto a towering statue of Czar Alexander II, who emancipated Russia’s serfs, and at the government office buildings and Helsinki Cathedral built in the St. Petersburg style.

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