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Welcome to the Russian rulers podcast, episode 60.

Reform? There will be no reforms here.

Last episode,

Assassins finally succeeded in killing SARS Alexander II

on the eve of his major reform of giving the people a constitutional monarchy.

His son, Alexander the third, takes over, but has been emotionally scarred by the murder of his father which would take its toll on the Russian people, especially the Jews.

With the death of his father, Alexander III was set to take helm of the Russian monarchy, but in truth he was not the first choice.

His older brother, Saurevich, Nicholas Alexandrovich, was the heir apparent apparent but he died suddenly of meningitis in

1865 at the age of 21 in Nice, France.

Nicholas was the son being groomed for rule, not Alexander, which in hindsight was not a very bright idea.

After that Saurevich's death, Alexander began his preparation, but he had already missed many years of education.

This lack of preparation was to become apparent during his 13-year reign.

He was un imaginative and highly reactionary, seeking simple answers for complex problems.

I guess you can see numerous corollaries in today's world of politics as well.

It has been a question that was in today's world of politics as well.

There's been a question that was posed to me recently by Mrs. Russian rulers podcast

as to the reasoning behind Sar Alexander's assassination and something that I did not answer last week. She asked,

why would people who wanted reform kill the man who was the great reformer on

the eve of his greatest achievement, the establishment of a constitutional on the were really getting no traction with the peasants and their ideas were just not

getting hold. Now if Alexander the second had enacted new reforms that were popular

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