1859 RUSSIAN IMPERIAL Silver ROUBLE Nicholas I Memorial. Alexander II of Russia

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1859 RUSSIAN IMPERIAL Silver ROUBLE Nicholas I Memorial. Alexander II of Russia:
$1290.00

- Condition: TOP SEE IMAGES
- Metal: Silver
- Weight: 20,83 g

Alexander II of Russia (Russian: Алекса́ндр II Никола́евич, Aleksandr II Nikolaevich) (29 April[O.S. 17 April]1818 in Moscow – 13 March[O.S. 1 March]1881 in Saint Petersburg) was the Emperor of Russia from 2 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881. He was also the King of Poland and the Grand Prince of Finland.

Alexander was the most successful Russian reformer since Peter the Great. His most important achievement was the emancipation of serfs in 1861, for which he became known as Alexander the Liberator (Russian: Алекса́ндр Освободитель, Aleksandr Osvoboditel\'). The tsar was responsible for numerous other reforms including reorganizing the judicial system, setting up elected local judges, abolishing capital punishment, promoting local self-government through the zemstvo system, imposing universal military service, ending some of the privileges of the nobility, and promoting the universities. His brutal secret police sent thousands of dissidents into exile in Siberia.

In foreign policy, Alexander sold Alaska to the United States in 1867, fearing the remote colony would fall into British hands if there was another war. He sought peace, and moved away from bellicose France when Napoleon III fell in 1871. In 1872 he joined with Germany and Austria in the League of the Three Emperors that stabilized the European situation. He did fight a short war with Turkey in 1877-78. He was disappointed by the results of the Congress of Berlin in 1878, but aoffered by that agreement. The Russian Empire expanded in Siberia and in the Caucasus, and conquered Turkestan. Faced with an uprising in Poland in 1863, he stripped that land of its separate Constitution and incorporated it directly into Russia. To counter the rise of a revolutionary and anarchistic movements, he was proposing additional parliamentary reforms when he was assassinated.

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