The Feilding Star. Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. SATURDAY,NOV. 3,1894. ALEXANDER 111.
♦ Emperor of all the Rusiias now dead, succeeded to the throne on the murder of his father by Nihilist conspirators on March 13th, 1881, was born March 10th, 1845 For sometime alter his elevation to the throne he soldum appeared in public, but lived in the closest retirement at Oatchina, being in constant dread of the machinations of the secret societies of Socialists. His coronation took place at Moscow, •May 27tb, 1883. He married in 1866 Mary Feodorovna, a daughter of Christian IX, King of Denmark. The principal concern of the Czar wns to put down Nihilism, to develop tho military power of Russia ; to organise her Asiatic and Caucasian provinces ; and to keep a steady eye on Constantinople. In October 1888 the Czar with his family narrowly escaped death by a railway accident on the Transcaspian railway. Notwithstanding his faith in military power, his efforts have in the main been in the direction of preserving the peace of Europe. He had borne a long and painful illness with remarkable fortitude. __ ______^___
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 110, 3 November 1894, Page 2
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184The Feilding Star. Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. SATURDAY,NOV. 3,1894. ALEXANDER III. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 110, 3 November 1894, Page 2
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