Alexander ii Sentence Examples

The church of St Mary and St German belonged to a Benedictine abbey founded under a grant from William the Conqueror in 1069 and raised to the dignity of a mitred abbey by Pope Alexander II.

Un homme d'etat russe (1884) gave the history of the emancipation of the serfs by Alexander II.

The " Third Section " was suppressed by Alexander II.

This fact made the new system especially obnoxious to the bureaucracy,, and during the latter years of Alexander II.

He had died at St Petersburg on the 2nd of March 1855 and had been succeeded by his eldest son, Alexander II.

On the 13th of March 1881, when returning from a military parade to the Winter Palace, Alexander II.

The plan was approved by Alexander II.

The next castle was a royal residence from 1189 to 1371 and was occupied occasionally by William the Lion, Alexander II.

The rights of these kings were doubtful, not only because of their illegitimate birth, but because it was claimed in Rome that Alexander II.

The first known instance of a mitred abbot is Egelsinus of St Augustine's, Canterbury, who received the honour from Pope Alexander II.

Many of them afterwards attained high positions in the Church; one, Anselm of Badagio, became pope under the title of Alexander II.

But no decisive measures were taken before the accession of Alexander II.

The main operations were confined to the Crimea, where the allied troops landed on the 14th of September 1854, and they were not concluded, in spite of the terrible exhaustion of Russia, till in December 1855 the threatened active intervention of Austria forced the emperor Alexander II.

Its castle, now ruinous, was built as a hunting-lodge for Malcolm Canmore, but of the abbey which it possessed as early as the reign of Alexander II.

In 1874 Prince Alfred, duke of Edinburgh, married Princess Marie Alexandrovna, only daughter of the tsar Alexander II.

The town is adorned with statues of Tsar Alexander II.

The rising of 1863 may without injustice be said to be due to the more humane policy of the tsar Alexander II.

His possessions had been enlarged by four successive marriages, particularly by that which he contracted in 1221 with Margaret, the sister of Alexander II.

It is a place of very considerable antiquity, was created a royal burgh by Alexander I., and received its charter from Alexander II.

When the Eastern question was raised in 1875 by the insurrection of Herzegovina, Alexander Ii.

Walter, his grandson, third steward, was appointed by Alexander II.

At length the sweeping changes introduced by Alexander II.

The Dominican or Blackfriars' monastery, founded by Alexander II.

He was thereupon excluded from the party, and after the assassination of the emperor Alexander II.

With the progressive disasters of the Russian arms, however, Austria grew bolder, and it was the ultimatum delivered by her to the emperor Alexander II.

Its old churches have been destroyed by fire, but it has a very ancient holy picture - probably the oldest in Russia, dating from 993, which attracts many pilgrims. In 1904 a town-house and a monument to Tsar Alexander II.

The diet, which had not met for 56 years, was convoked by Alexander II.

Unfortunately his successor soon fell under the influence of the reactionary party which had begun to assert itself in Russia even before the assassination of Alexander II.

The bishops of Lucca, who can be traced back to 347, received exceptional marks of distinction, such as the pallium in 1120, and the archiepiscopal cross from Alexander II.

The city is the see of a Greek Catholic archbishop and of an Armenian archbishop, and contains a Lamaist monastery, as well as technical schools, an ichthyological museum, the Peter museum, with ethnographical, archaeological and natural history collections, a botanical garden, an ecclesiastical seminary, and good squares and public gardens, one of which is adorned with a statue (1884) of Alexander II.

The first undoubted instance is the bull by which Alexander II.

He was attached to Lord Granville's mission to Moscow, as British representative at the coronation of Alexander II.

He declared Alexander II.

He was a man of great energy and ability, whose action in recognizing Alexander II.

It was occasionally the residence of royalty, and Alexander II.

He also obtained the blessing of Pope Alexander II.

William retained in his own hands the choice of bishops and abbots, and Alexander II.

The city, being in a treeless region, is proud of the avenues of trees that line several of its streets and of its parks, especially of the Alexander Park, with a statue of Alexander II.

His army, commanded by the Russian General Chernyayev, was defeated by Abdul-Kerim Pasha, whose advance was stopped by the intervention of Tsar Alexander II.

In January 1856 he had the good fortune to win a diplomatic triumph over the new tsar, Alexander II.

The project was favoured by Loris-Melikov, then all-powerful in Russia, but in 1881 Alexander II.

Elements To Consider Alexander III believed in absolute czarism - just as his father, Alexander II and his son, Nicholas II.

In 1861, Alexander II had emancipated the serfs.

He rendered valuable assistance to Pope Alexander II.

William secured the benevolent neutrality of the emperor Henry IV.; the influence of the archdeacon Hildebrand obtained for the expedition the solemn approval of Pope Alexander II.