biography
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Alexander III (of Russia)
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| (1845–94)
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| biography:
| Tsar of Russia (1881–94), born in St Petersburg, NW Russia, the younger son of Alexander II. He followed a repressive policy in home affairs, especially in the persecution of Jews (the ‘pogroms’), thousands of whom emigrated to the UK and USA. Abroad, he consolidated Russia's hold on C Asia to the frontier of Afghanistan, provoking a crisis with Britain (1885). |
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