Alexander III of Russia

Alexander III of Russia was a historical figure associated with Emperor of Russia. The record associates Alexander III of Russia with Russian Empire. Alexander III of Russia belonged to the Romanov.

Alexander became heir after the death of his elder brother and married Dagmar of Denmark, who became Maria Feodorovna. His reign strengthened central authority, censorship and Russification while industrial and railway expansion accelerated. He rejected broad constitutional reform and left the throne to his eldest son Nicholas II in 1894.

Simon Sebag Montefiore’s The Romanovs traces the dynasty that ruled Russia from the accession of Michael Romanov in 1613 to the fall of Nicholas II and the murder of the imperial family in 1918. In C. W. Gortner’s The Romanov Empress, Princess Dagmar of Denmark travels to Russia, converts to Orthodoxy and becomes Maria Feodorovna, wife of the future Alexander III.