“It is better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait for it to abolish itself from below.”
Speech (30 March 1856), as quoted in A Concise History of Russia (1972) by Ronald Hingley\. p. 122.
Alexander II. Nikolajevič bol ruský cár z rodu Romanovcov. Známy aj ako Osloboditeľ, kvôli svojej reformnej činnosti a zrušeniu nevoľníctva. Cár zomrel 13. marca 1881 na následky zranení, ktoré utrpel pri bombovom atentáte, ktorý na neho spáchali príslušníci tajnej organizácie Narodnaja volja. Wikipedia
“It is better to abolish serfdom from above than to wait for it to abolish itself from below.”
Speech (30 March 1856), as quoted in A Concise History of Russia (1972) by Ronald Hingley\. p. 122.
“The loneliness of despotism, or the fear of violent death.”
The interpretation of Benjamin Disraeli of Alexander II<nowiki>'s sad face in a letter written in 1880 to Lady Chesterfield, as quoted in Stanley Weintraub, Victoria. Biography of a queen</nowiki> (1987), p. 413.
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