Free Press, 480 pp., $35 Edvard Radzinsky’s “Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar” was one of three books President George W. Bush took with him to Texas on summer vacation this year.

Tsar Alexander II of Russia stood at the crossroads of history—after all, his reign paved the way to the fall of the Romanov empire. And when you look at his scandalous life, it’s no wonder why it ...

On March 13, 1881, revolutionaries assassinated Russian Tsar Alexander II. The terrorist organization Narodnaya Volya (People’s Will) hoped to spark a revolution by assassinating the monarch. Instead, ...

Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar Edvard Radzinsky, , trans. from the Russian by Antonina W. Bouis. . Free Press, $35 (462pp) ISBN 978-0-7432-7332-9 ...

Great-grandson of Czar Alexander II Duke Georgy Yurievich told TASS that this year marks the 200th anniversary of Alexander II's birth. "This is a special year, and my great-grandfather's ...

Samples were also taken from the blood stains found on the uniform of Emperor Alexander II, Nicholas II's grandfather who was killed by radical revolutionaries on 1 March 1881.

A painting depicts the coronation of Emperor Alexander II and Empress Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, which took place on September 7, 1856 at the Dormition Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin.