Dates

• Crimean War

  1853 to 1856
• Treaty of Paris signed by all parties involved, Russia loses territory including Bessarabia (Moldavia) and the Caucasus region.
• Edit committee for emancipation

  1859
• Emancipation

  1861
• First Zemstva’s

  1864
• Polish revolt ( reaction to emancipation ) 


  1863
• Meets mistress ( becomes secular )

  1864
• Eldest son dies

  1865
• Alex II - First assassination attempt

  1866
• Alex II - Second assassination attempt

  1867
• Alex II - Third assassination attempt

  1879
• Alex II - Fourth attempt

  1879
• Alex II - Fifth attempt ( most deadly )

  1880
• Repressive legislation - Alex II

  1886
• Tolstoy - Education appointment

  1866

  • Promote classical Latin and Greek - no critical thinking and questioning
  • Restricted university to classical subjects and nobility
  • Students disciplined by police
• Palen - Justice appointment

  1867

  • 1879 - Gov generals given power to prosecute public in military courts
  • 1877 - Open trial of 50 - majority non guilty
  • 1877/78 - 153/193 found non guilty - sympathetic jury
  • 1878 - Zasulich shoots and injures mayor of st Petersburg - found non guilty of attempted murder
• Loris Melokov - Interior Minister

  1880
• Loris constitution

  1881
• Alexander II Assassination 


  13th March 1881