Peter Demens
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Peter Demens, born Pyotr Alekseyevich Dementyev, was a Russian nobleman who migrated in 1881 to the United States and became a railway owner and one of the founders of St. Petersburg, Florida, United
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The Demens-Tolstoy Estate on Hillside and Archibald
Alexander II of Russia
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Alexander II was Emperor of Russia, King of Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from 2 March 1855 until his assassination on 13 March 1881. He is also known as Alexander the Liberator because of his his
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…Marxist or radical notions. Some sources state that Demens became outspoken about the czarist regime and left Russia following the assassination of Czar Alexander II in 1881. Other sources note that he left Russia as a political exile in 1880. He emigrated to the United States and anglicized his name to Peter Demens…
Formal portrait, c. 1874
Grand Duke Alexander Nikolayevich, by Franz Krüger, 1830
Procession of Alexander II into Dormition Cathedral from the Red Porch during his coronation
The coronation of Emperor Alexander II and Empress Maria Alexandrovna on 26 August/7 September 1856 at the Dormition Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin, painting by Mihály Zichy. The painting depicts the moment when the Emperor crowned the Empress.