Alexander 2 of Russia

BY : STEPHEN HONG

ALEXANDER 2 OF RUSSIA

ALEXANDER II ‘S EMPIRE

• This is where alexander II empire was at 1913 in Russia.

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Big and bad just like Russia

PETER KROPOTKIN ON THE ASSASSINATION OF ALEXANDER II (FEBRUARY, 1881)

Here Alexander II lay upon the snow, profusely bleeding, abandoned by every one of his followers. All had disappeared. It was cadets, returning from the parade, who lifted the suffering Tsar from the snow and put him in a sledge, covering his shivering body with a cadet mantle and his bare head with a cadet cap. And it was one of the terrorists, Emelianoff, with a bomb wrapped in a paper under his arm, who, at the risk of being arrested on the spot and hanged, rushed with the cadets to the help of the wounded man. Human nature is full of those contrasts.Thus ended the tragedy of Alexander II's life. People could not understand how it was possible that a Tsar who had done so much for Russia should have met his death at the hands of revolutionists. To me, who had the chance of witnessing the first reactionary steps of Alexander 11, and his gradual deterioration, who had caught a glimpse of his complex personality, -- that of a born autocrat whose violence was but partially mitigated by education, of a man possessed of military gallantry, but devoid of the courage of the statesman, of a man of strong passions and weak will, -- it seemed that the tragedy developed with the unavoidable fatality of one of Shakespeare's dramas. Its last act was already written for me on the day when I heard him address us, the promoted officers, on June 13, 1862, immediately after he had ordered the first executions in Poland.

INTERPRETATION

Alexander II had been left by all his people and he wasn’t a very bad leader he made lots of mistakes, its because that the guy could of killed him with the bomb under his arm but he didn’t kill him so you can tell he wasn’t a that bad of a leader.

4 ACCOMPLISHMENT

Political- alexander II Assassinated in February 1881 and was over thrown Social –he allowed local councils with power to allowed roads.Economic- he wanted more land to rule Unique-bringing an end to serfdom in Russia

BIBLIOGRAPHYhttp://www.shsu.edu/~his_ncp/Assass.html

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSalexander2.htm