Alexander II of Russia

Alexander II (Russian: Алекса́ндр II Никола́евичcode: ru is deprecated , tr. Aleksándr II Nikoláyevichcode: ru is deprecated ; 29 April 1818 – 13 March 1881) was Emperor of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 1855 until his assassination in 1881. Alexander's most significant liberal reform as emperor was the emancipation of Russia's serfs in 1861, for which he is known as Alexander the Liberator.

Alexander II
Photograph, circa 1878–1881
Emperor of Russia
2 March 1855 – 13 March 1881
Coronation	7 September 1856
Predecessor	Nicholas I
Successor	Alexander III
Born	(1818-04-29)29 April 1818 Moscow Kremlin, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	13 March 1881(1881-03-13) (aged 62) Winter Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Burial	Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Spouse	Marie of Hesse and by Rhine ​ ​ (m. 1841; died 1880)​ Catherine Mikhailovna Dolgorukova (morganatic) ​ ​ (m. 1880)​
Issue among others...	Grand Duchess Alexandra Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia Alexander III Grand Duke Vladimir Grand Duke Alexei Maria, Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Grand Duke Sergei Grand Duke Paul Legitimized: Prince George Yuryevsky Princess Olga Yurievskaya Prince Boris Alexandrovich Yurievsky Princess Catherine Yurievskaya
Full name Alexander Nikolayevich Romanov
House	Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov
Father	Nicholas I of Russia
Mother	Charlotte of Prussia
Religion	Russian Orthodox
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Alexander II Of Russia Media

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  Grand Duke Alexander Nikolayevich, by Franz Krüger, 1830

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  Procession of Alexander II into Dormition Cathedral from the Red Porch during his coronation

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  The coronation of Emperor Alexander II and Empress Maria Alexandrovna on 26 August/7 September 1856 at the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin, painting by Mihály Zichy. The painting depicts the moment when the Emperor crowned the Empress.

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  Russian peasants reading the Emancipation Manifesto, an 1873 painting by Grigory Myasoyedov

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  Leaving church in Pskov, 1864

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  The US$7.2 million check used to pay for Russian Alaska in 1867

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  Map of the Russian Empire at its height in 1866

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  Battle of Mrzygłód during the January Uprising in 1863

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  Monument to Alexander II "The Liberator" at the Senate Square in Helsinki, by sculptor Walter Runeberg. It was erected in 1894, when Finland was still a Russian grand duchy.