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Alexander III of Russia

1845 - 1894

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Alexander III (Russian: Александр III Александрович Романов, romanized: Aleksandr III Aleksandrovich Romanov; 10 March 1845 – 1 November 1894) was Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 13 March 1881 until his death in 1894. He was highly reactionary in domestic affairs and reversed some of the liberal reforms of his father, Alexander II, a policy of "counter-reforms" (Russian: контрреформы). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander III of Russia has received more than 7,414,161 page views. His biography is available in 85 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 83 in 2019). Alexander III of Russia is the 232nd most popular politician (down from 206th in 2019), the 31st most popular biography from Russia (down from 28th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Politician.

Alexander III of Russia is most famous for his role in the Russo-Japanese War, which was a war between Russia and Japan.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Alexander III of Russia ranks 232 out of 19,576. Before him are Sennacherib, Mehmed VI, Yuri Andropov, Enver Hoxha, Reinhard Heydrich, and Bill Clinton. After him are Theodore Roosevelt, Matthias Corvinus, Thutmose III, Caracalla, Catherine I of Russia, and Empress Dowager Cixi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Alexander III of Russia ranks 2. Before him is Wilhelm Röntgen. After him are Ludwig II of Bavaria, Georg Cantor, George I of Greece, Gabriel Lippmann, Gabriel Fauré, Élie Metchnikoff, Amadeo I of Spain, Carl Spitteler, Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, and Ludwig III of Bavaria. Among people deceased in 1894, Alexander III of Russia ranks 1. After him are Heinrich Hertz, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hermann von Helmholtz, Ferdinand de Lesseps, Adolphe Sax, Lajos Kossuth, Gustave Caillebotte, Marie François Sadi Carnot, Anton Rubinstein, Francis II of the Two Sicilies, and Prince Philippe, Count of Paris.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander III of Russia ranks 31 out of 3,761. Before him are Isaac Asimov (1920), Mikhail Bakunin (1814), Igor Stravinsky (1882), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918), Nicholas I of Russia (1796), and Yuri Andropov (1914). After him are Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873), Yul Brynner (1920), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906), Valentina Tereshkova (1937), Georgy Zhukov (1896), and David Hilbert (1862).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Alexander III of Russia ranks 13. Before him are Ivan the Terrible (1530), Boris Yeltsin (1931), Kim Jong-il (1941), Alexander I of Russia (1777), Nicholas I of Russia (1796), and Yuri Andropov (1914). After him are Georgy Zhukov (1896), Alexander II of Russia (1818), Konstantin Chernenko (1911), Turhan Hatice Sultan (1627), Vyacheslav Molotov (1890), and Elizabeth of Russia (1709).

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