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Paul I Petrovich Romanov
(1 OCT 1754 - 11 MAR 1801) |
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Maria Sophie Feodorovna Von Wurttemberg
(25 OCT 1759 - 1828) |
Frederick William III Hohenzollern King of Prussia
(1770 - 1840) |
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Louise Of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
(1776 - 1810) |
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Nicholas Pavlovich Romanov Tsar of Russia
(25 JUN 1796 - 18 FEB 1855) |
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Frederica Louisa Charlotta Wilhelmina Hohenzollern
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| Birth Date | 17 APR 1818 |
| Birth Place | Moscow |
| Death Date | 1 MAR 1881 |
| Death Place | St. Petersburg, Russia |
| Burial Place | Cathedral Of St. Peter And St. Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg |
| Spouses of Alexander II Nikolaevich Romanov |
| Princess Marie Of Hesse And The Rhine | |
| Birth Date | 8 AUG 1824 |
| Death Date | 22 MAY 1880 |
| Father | Grand Duke Louis II Of Hesse And The Rhine (1777 - 1848) |
| Mother | Princess Wilhelmina Of Baden (1788 - 1836) |
| Marriage Date | 16 APR 1841 |
| Alexander II Nikolaevich Romanov and Marie Of Hesse And The Rhine had the following children |
| Princess Ekaterina Michielovna Dolgorukaya | |
| Birth Date | 2 NOV 1847 |
| Death Date | 15 FEB 1922 |
| Father | Prince Micheal Michealovich Dolgorukij ( - ) |
| Mother | Vera Gavrilovna Visnevskaya ( - ) |
| Marriage Date | 6 JUL 1880 |
| Marriage Place | Elizabeth Palace, Tsarskoe-Selo |
| Alexander II Nikolaevich Romanov and Ekaterina Michielovna Dolgorukaya had the following children |
| 1 | George Romanov |
| 2 | Olga Yourievsky Romanov |
| 3 | Boris Romanov |
| 4 | Princess Catherine Alexandrovna Romanov |
| Notes for Tzar Alexander II Nikolaevich Romanov |
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ALEXANDER II (ALEXANDER NIKOLAEVICH) EMPEROR OF ALL RUSSIA
1855-1881
Eldest son of Emperor Nicholas I, Alexander was born in Moscow on April 17, 1818, and came to the throne on February 19, 1855, after the death of his father. He was crowned in the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin on August 26, 1856. After his accession to the throne, Alexander II implemented important reforms, notably the abolition of serfdom, as well as changes in national, military and municipal organization. He also rethought foreign policy: Russia now refrained from overseas expansion and concentrated on strengthening its borders. In 1867, he sold Alaska and the Aleutian Islands to the United States. His greatest foreign policy achievement was the successful war of 1877-8 against the Ottoman Empire, resulting in the liberation of Bulgaria and annulment of the conditions of the Treaty of Paris of 1856, imposed after Russia's defeat in the Crimean War. In 1841, Alexander II married Maria of Hessen-Darmstadt (Maria Alexandrovna). The marriage produced seven children.
On March 1, 1881, in St. Petersburg, he was mortally wounded by a bomb thrown by a student, I. Grinevitskii, a member of the revolutionary organization "The National Will.'' The Cathedral of the Resurrection on Blood was erected on the site of the murder. Alexander II was buried in the Cathedral of the St. Peter and St. Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg.
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