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Russia: Empire and Nation

Alexander III (1881-1894) son of Alexander II became tsar after his father’s assassination in 1881 reactionary and nationalist leader like Nicholas I (his grandfather), champion of the three pillars of Russian Tsardom : Autocracy, Orthodoxy, and Nationality

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Russia: Empire and Nation

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  1. Alexander III (1881-1894) • son of Alexander II • became tsar after his father’s assassination in 1881 • reactionary and nationalist leader • like Nicholas I (his grandfather), champion of the three pillars of Russian Tsardom: Autocracy, Orthodoxy, and Nationality • pursued Russification policies to create national, linguistic, and religious unity • embraced Russia’s Muscovite past (16th and 17th centuries) and history of strong, paternalistic tsars ruling over submissive people who love them Russia: Empire and Nation Statue of Alexander III, St. Petersburg By PavelTrubetskoi (1909)

  2. “Three Bogatyri” (1898) by Viktor Vasnetsov

  3. Ethnographic map of Russia after the 1897 census. Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ethnographic_map_of_Russian_Empire.jpg.

  4. Map of the Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire (1905). Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_showing_the_percentage_of_Jews_in_the_Pale_of_Settlement_and_Congress_Poland,_The_Jewish_Encyclopedia_(1905).jpg

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