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Historical person
1818–1881
Alexander II was emperor of Russia from 1855 to 1881 and is best known for the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. He also introduced judicial, military and local-government reforms, while facing revolutionary violence and nationalist unrest, and was assassinated by members of the People’s Will.
In Gary Jennings’s Spangle: The Grand Promenade, the Florilegium continues east and north through Hungary and Russia before turning towards the most prestigious stages of western Europe.
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Series
Spangle follows Florian’s Flourishing Florilegium of Wonders from the devastated American South at the end of the Civil War to the courts, capitals and battlefields of Europe. Former Confederate colonel Zachary Edge and veteran Obie Yount join a struggling travelling circus whose performers become a surrogate family. As…
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