Emperor Alexander II "the Liberator"

[CountessKate]

I rember having heard/read that there was a correspondence--or at least an exchange of a few letters between Alexandre II and President Lincoln.
Is anyone else aware of this--does a correspondence exist?

I don't know about an exchange of ideas, but Lincoln asked Alexander for help during the Civil War and the tsar gave it by sending the Russian Navy to protect American ports from the British.  Presumably there was correspondence between them about this.  

[Natalya]

I really like this one of Alexander II with his much-adored daughter, Grand Duchess Marie.  I think it's really unfair that most books present her as "not very pretty."  We in today's world tend to be overly critical and place too high a value on looks.  Marie may not be the most beautiful or glamorous, but I'm sure she had feelings that must have been hurt if people back then were as opinionated as we are today.

[antti]

In Helsinki we have had a monument of Alexander II all the time.


http://www.senaatintori.fi/Aleksanterinpatsas.htm

A monument to Alexander II is being dedicated today in Moscow.

[TampaBay]

How old was Aleander II when he was assassinated?

TampaBay

[Belochka]

How old was Aleander II when he was assassinated?

TampaBay

Alexander II was born on 17 April 1818 and was assassinated on 1 March, 1881.

Margarita

[Raskolnikov]

A translation of Edvard Radzinsky's Alexander II: the Last Great Tsar has recently become available on the UK market:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alexander-II-Last-Great-Tsar/dp/074327332X/sr=1-6/qid=1158930352/ref=sr_1_6/026-4687863-1074813?ie=UTF8&s=books

I am waiting for the paperback to be released in November.

[Helen]

It seems a digitalized version of the 1856 coronation album of Tsar Alexander II and Maria Feodorovna is available on CD-ROM: 

"Die Moskauer Zarenkrönung von 1856 - Alexander II. und Maria Alexandrovna; Die Beschreibung in der Riesen-Prachtausgabe des Zarenhofes" [The Moscow Coronation of Zar Alexander II and Maria Alexandrovna, as described in the court's luxury coronation album]
Editor: Hermann Goltz; 1st edition 2003.
Published by Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart, Germany (http://www.steiner-verlag.de/titel/53271.html)
ISBN 978-3-515-08314-0
Price: ca EUR 48.00

From the text on the publisher's web site, I understand that this CD-ROM is a 'facsimile edition' making accessible the French-language edition of the 1856 coronation album, "Description du Sacre et du Couronnement de leurs Majestés Impériales l’Empereur Alexandre II et l’Impératrice Marie Alexandrovna, St. Petersburg 1856" (67.5 x 90 cm). I'm not sure, but I get the impression that the text in Russian is also included. The CD-ROM is said to include 125 numbered text pages with 28 woodcuts, 1 lithographs, 2 chromolithographs and 1 steel engraving; plus additionally 3 lithograph tables and 18 chromolithograph tables.

[RomanovsFan4Ever]

Alexander II

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My favorite portrait of Alexander II

[nena]

[RomanovsFan4Ever]

Another beautiful portrait of Alexander II.

[RomanovsFan4Ever]

Alexander II again:

Colored by Grand Duchess Ally...Thank you again Ally! ;-)

[Aglaya]

Tsar's family