3-065-884 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

His Imperial Majesty Alexander II., Czar of Russia, 1874. 'In honour of the illustrious guest who is welcomed this week by our Queen and by the nation, we make his Portrait the subject of our special Engraving [from a photograph by M. Bergamasco]. The Emperor or Czar Alexander Nicholaievitch, Alexander II. of Russia, is fifty-six years of age, having been born April 29, 1818...We cannot here dwell upon the events of the Emperor's reign. It is enough to remember his great act of beneficence, the emancipation of twenty million serfs. In Europe, too, he has always been a friend of peace'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.