What if alexander ii lived

Good question CM. Oct Atleast 10 million innocent souls would have lived out their lives peacefully. Pavel Ad Honorem. Jul 2, Corto Maltese said:.

That was his plan to make Russia be more like the British Monarchy Atleast it was the British type of government that he took the idea of the Duma from It is really one if the biggest disasters in Russian history that Alexander II did not get do make the reform he was to make the day he was killed.

Dec 19, Tend to agree with our Pavel here; in practice, truly revolutionary social reforms have hardly ever willingly come from any autocracy. The original application of the emancipation of the serfs in was sketchy at best; it was probably mostly a pressure measure against some powerful nobles.

Basically, he started doing something and then stopped and here, if you started doing something, you should finish it. Here's a good explanation in the first paragraph. European History Jan 20, Top Bottom.

Russian Tsar Alexander II lives until Jul 28, Alexander II of Russia not assassinated. Dec 9, Alexander III of Russia:. May 22, When his appetite for conquering was sated, if it could be at all, the matter of succession would be of paramount importance.

Could the empire survive without the aura of Alexander? But had he lived long enough to make quite clear who was to succeed him, and prepared that person to assume the succession, then Alexander would have pre-empted the pretty much immediate post-mortem outbreak of the wars of his successors. His father, Philip II, had transformed the peripheral state of Macedon into the dominant power in Greece, and had planned to invade the Persian Empire.

Alexander took that ambition up himself, crossing the Hellespont with more than 30, infantry soldiers and 7, cavalry. Crushing the Persians at every battle, Alexander became the most powerful man in the ancient world. His decade-long campaign only came to an end, in the Punjab, when his exhausted and demoralised army demanded they return home.

Alexander acquiesced, but his spirit was broken as he gave in to drinking and megalomania. Back in Babylon, he fell ill and died in BC, aged He was speaking to freelance writer Jonny Wilkes. Sign in. Back to Main menu Virtual history events History masterclasses.