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Alexander II of Russia

1818 - 1881

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Alexander II (Russian: Алекса́ндр II Никола́евич, romanized: Aleksándr II Nikoláyevich, IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ftɐˈroj nʲɪkɐˈlajɪvʲɪtɕ]; 29 April 1818 – 13 March 1881) was Emperor of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 2 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881. Alexander's most significant reform as emperor was the emancipation of Russia's serfs in 1861, for which he is known as Alexander the Liberator (Russian: Алекса́ндр Освободи́тель, romanized: Aleksándr Osvobodítel, IPA: [ɐlʲɪˈksandr ɐsvəbɐˈdʲitʲɪlʲ]). The tsar was responsible for other liberal reforms, including reorganizing the judicial system, setting up elected local judges, abolishing corporal punishment, promoting local self-government through the zemstvo system, imposing universal military service, ending some privileges of the nobility, and promoting university education. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander II of Russia has received more than 8,215,353 page views. His biography is available in 90 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 87 in 2019). Alexander II of Russia is the 279th most popular politician, the 39th most popular biography from Russia and the 15th most popular Russian Politician.

Alexander II of Russia is most famous for the emancipation of the serfs, which was enacted in 1861.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Alexander II of Russia ranks 279 out of 19,576. Before him are Elagabalus, Brutus the Younger, Ferdinand II of Aragon, Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden, Leopold III of Belgium, and Charles VII of France. After him are Charles VIII of France, B. R. Ambedkar, Charles the Bald, Edward Heath, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, and Hu Jintao.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1818, Alexander II of Russia ranks 4. Before him are Karl Marx, James Prescott Joule, and Emily Brontë. After him are Ignaz Semmelweis, Ivan Turgenev, Christian IX of Denmark, Charles Gounod, Jacob Burckhardt, Lewis H. Morgan, Marius Petipa, and Rudolf von Jhering. Among people deceased in 1881, Alexander II of Russia ranks 2. Before him is Fyodor Dostoevsky. After him are Modest Mussorgsky, James A. Garfield, Benjamin Disraeli, Billy the Kid, Lewis H. Morgan, Matthias Jakob Schleiden, Jenny von Westphalen, Louis Auguste Blanqui, Thomas Carlyle, and Auguste Mariette.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander II of Russia ranks 39 out of 3,761. Before him are Yul Brynner (1920), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906), Valentina Tereshkova (1937), Georgy Zhukov (1896), David Hilbert (1862), and E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776). After him are Konstantin Chernenko (1911), Vladimir Nabokov (1899), Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (1901), Turhan Hatice Sultan (1627), Vyacheslav Molotov (1890), and Elizabeth of Russia (1709).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Alexander II of Russia ranks 15. Before him are Kim Jong-il (1941), Alexander I of Russia (1777), Nicholas I of Russia (1796), Yuri Andropov (1914), Alexander III of Russia (1845), and Georgy Zhukov (1896). After him are Konstantin Chernenko (1911), Turhan Hatice Sultan (1627), Vyacheslav Molotov (1890), Elizabeth of Russia (1709), Paul I of Russia (1754), and Georgy Malenkov (1902).

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