Alexander III

Alexander III

Alexander III born 10 March 1845 in St. Petersburg, died 1 November 1894 in Livadia, Crimea, reign 13 March 1881 – 1 November 1894

Heir to the throne

Alexander is the second son of Emperor Alexander II and Maria Alexandrovna.Alexander Alexandrovich was not trained for the government, so he received a military education, usual for the Grand Dukes. He did not show any special abilities, although he loved military affairs, literature and music (he played on the trumpet, cornet-a-pistone and trombone). Heir Grand Duke Alexander became after the death of his elder brother Nicholas, who died in Nice on 24 Apri 1865. 28 October , 1866 heir to the Russian throne married the bride of the late elder brother, the daughter of the Danish king Luise Sophia Frederick Dagmar, who adopted the name of Maria Feodorovna. In this marriage, Nicholas (future Emperor Nicholas II), Alexander, George, Xenia, Michael, Olga were born.

Personal qualities

Contemporaries noted that with moderate mental abilities and education, Alexander was distinguished by common sense, intuition and ingenuity. The king was not terse; He spoke French, German and English, but in society he tried to speak only Russian. In everyday life was simple, modest and unpretentious.

Illness and Death

In 1894 Alexander III became ill with terminal kidney disease (nephritis). In the fall of that year, Maria Fyodorovna's sister-in-law, Queen Olga of Greece, offered her villa of Mon Repos, on the island of Corfu, in the hope that it might improve the Tsar's condition. However, by the time that they reached Crimea, they stayed at the Maly Palace in Livadia, as Alexander was too weak to travel any further. Soon after, his health began to deteriorate more rapidly. He eventually died in the arms of his wife at Maly Palace in Livadia on the afternoon of 1 November 1894

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