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Perovskaya develops a deep romantic bond with the young revolutionary Andrei Zhelyabov, who confesses his love for her, and together they commit fully to the cause. As members of Narodnaya Volya ("People's Will"), they embrace revolutionary terrorism and orchestrate a plot to assassinate Tsar Alexander II.
Timofeyev (Malcolm McDowell) is a patient in an asylum who claims to be the man who killed Tsar Alexander II in 1881, and his grandson Tsar Nicholas II in 1918.Doctor Smirnov (Oleg Yankovsky) decides to apply a peculiar therapeutic method on him, but things go in an unexpected way.
Radzinsky, Edvard, Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar. New York: The Free Press, 2005. Zakharova, Larissa (1910). Alexander II: Portrait of an Autocrat and His Times. ISBN 978-0-8133-1491-4. Watts, Carl Peter. "Alexander II's Reforms: Causes and Consequences" History Review (1998): 6–15. Online Archived 18 April 2022 at the Wayback Machine
Magnificent Sinner (original French title: Katia) is a 1959 French drama historical film by director Robert Siodmak about the romance between Tsar Alexander II of Russia and the then-schoolgirl Catherine Dolgorukova, who later became his mistress and finally his morganatic wife.
Includes footage of the canonization of Tsar Nicholas II and his family in 2000. 2002 Russian Federation Russian Ark: Alexander Sokurov: Filmed in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg in just one 90 minute shot. 2003 United Kingdom The Lost Prince: Stephen Poliakoff: Mini series about Prince John of the United Kingdom. The Romanovs appear in ...
Due to his mother's closeness with the court of the Tsar, Aleksey was admitted to the future Alexander II's childhood entourage and became "a comrade in games" for the young Crown Prince. As a young man Tolstoy traveled widely, including trips to Italy and Germany, where he met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe .
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In 1855, Alexander II began his reign as Tsar of Russia and presided over a period of political and social reform, notably the emancipation of serfs in 1861 and the lifting of censorship. His successor Alexander III (r. 1881–1894) pursued a policy of repression and restricted public expenditure, but continued land and labour reforms. This was ...