Tsar Alexander II person

“As early as February 1867, he began to contemplate the possibility... of involving himself directly in Russian railways, a subject he discussed at some length when the Tsar and his Prime Minister Gorchakov visited Paris in 1867.…”

“Russia had been pursuing a “forward” policy towards Turkey from October 1870, when the Tsar had repudiated the Black Sea clauses of the 1856 Treaty of Paris.…”

“Tsar Alexander II ended up deploying the Russian Navy to both the Pacific and the Atlantic shores. And he did that after a meeting. Let me read you. It says Tsar Alexander explained in an interview why he did this. And it was the interview …”

“In the autumn of 1862, the government of France and Great Britain proposed to Russia in a formal but not official way, the joint recognition of European powers of the independence of the Confederate States of America. My immediate answer, s…”

“as a Casa Bali for Russia. And in order that the governments of France and Great Britain may understand that this is no idle threat, I will send the Pacific fleet to San Francisco and the Atlantic fleet to New York, dot, dot, dot. All this …”

“as a Casa Bali for Russia. And in order that the governments of France and Great Britain may understand that this is no idle threat, I will send the Pacific fleet to San Francisco and the Atlantic fleet to New York, dot, dot, dot. All this …”