EmperorAlexander may refer to: Alexander the Great (326-323 BCE), a Macedonian king who conquered the known world Alexander Severus (208–235), a Roman...
1881) was Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 2 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881. Alexander's most significant...
yet cunning great-uncle EmperorAlexander I. Although an enthusiastic amateur musician and patron of the ballet, Alexander was seen as lacking refinement...
the eldest son of Emperor Paul I and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg. The son of Grand Duke Paul Petrovich, later Paul I, Alexander succeeded to the throne...
Severus Alexander (1 October 208 – 21/22 March 235), also known as Alexander Severus, was Roman emperor from 222 until 235. The last emperor from the...
one of several that led to his exile by EmperorAlexander I. While under strict surveillance by the Emperor's political police and unable to publish,...
officially resident in St Petersburg, the Alexander Palace was the preferred residence of the last Russian Emperor, Nicholas II and his family; its safety...
Only the emperors who were recognized as legitimate rulers and exercised sovereign authority are included, to the exclusion of junior co-emperors (symbasileis)...
The word emperor (from Latin: imperator, via Old French: empereor) can mean the male ruler of an empire. Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate...
later EmperorAlexander III and Empress Maria. Grand Duke Alexander's father was heir apparent to the Russian throne as the eldest living son of Emperor Alexander...
He had six older sisters and two older brothers, namely the future EmperorAlexander I of Russia and Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia. Five months...
figurative decoration of Hagia Sophia exists before this time. The EmperorAlexander mosaic is not easy to find for the first-time visitor, located on...
future EmperorAlexander I. It was not until 1787 that Catherine may have in fact decided to exclude her son from succession.: 184 After Alexander and his...
Grancy's page for his rumored paternal ancestry. When the future emperorAlexander II of Russia, as tsarevich, chose the sixteen-year-old Marie as consort...
main branches named after the sons of Emperor Nicholas I: The Alexandrovichi (descendants of EmperorAlexander II of Russia) (with further subdivisions...
woman and member of the Severan dynasty. She was the mother of Roman emperorAlexander Severus and remained one of his chief advisors throughout his reign...
was a beloved dish of EmperorAlexander III. Prior to the October 17, 1888 train crash that Alexander III was on, the emperor was served this dish for...
main branches named after the sons of Emperor Nicholas I: The Alexandrovichi (descendants of EmperorAlexander II of Russia) (with further subdivisions...
1868, in the Alexander Palace in Tsarskoye Selo south of Saint Petersburg, during the reign of his paternal grandfather, EmperorAlexander II. He was the...
December [O.S. 14 December] 1825, following the sudden death of EmperorAlexander I. Alexander's heir-presumptive, Konstantin, had privately declined the succession...
Alexander Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia. Although an Imperial Romanov Family Dynast and a grandson of EmperorAlexander...
suffered on land and sea exposed the weakness of Emperor Nicholas I's regime. When EmperorAlexander II ascended the throne in 1855, the desire for reform...
family, Catherine and Alexander did not actually become intimate until July 1866, when she was moved by her pity for the Emperor after the death of his...
rivals, supported by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa, claimed the papacy. Alexander rejected Byzantine Emperor Manuel I Komnenos' offer to end...
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