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Definition of Czar Alexander II
1. Noun. The son of Nicholas I who, as czar of Russia, introduced reforms that included limited emancipation of the serfs (1818-1881).
Exact synonyms: Alexander Ii, Alexander The Liberator
Geographical relationships: Russia
Generic synonyms: Czar, Tsar, Tzar
Geographical relationships: Russia
Generic synonyms: Czar, Tsar, Tzar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Czar Alexander II
Literary usage of Czar Alexander II
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Some Noted Princes, Authors and Statesmen of Our Time by James Parton (1885)
"THE CZAR, ALEXANDER II., IN THE FIELD, 1877. BY ARCHIBALD FORBES. THE Romanoffs
have always been fighting-men. Peter the Great was at the siege of Narva, ..."
2. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography by James Terry White, James T. White & Company (1898)
"... mission to Russia to bear the congratulations of the US congress to the czar,
Alexander II., who had narrowly escaped assassination by a Pole in Paris, ..."
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