where #Jews were required to live. In ‘recent’ years, two main waves of #JewishImmigration have occurred: one beginning sometime after 1856 when #AlexanderII abolished the army ‘#Cantonist’ system of ‘#conscripting’ #JewishBoys for 25-year military service (the #conscription was not
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foundry area where #Jews were required to live. In ‘recent’ years, two main waves of #JewishImmigration have occurred: one beginning sometime after 1856 when #AlexanderII abolished the army ‘#Cantonist’ system of ‘#conscripting’ #JewishBoys for 25-year military service (the #conscription was
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#AlexanderII #AmericanDemocracy #Authoritarianism #ChristianEthics #ChurchAndState #CivilRights #DemocracyInCrisis #FaithAndJustice #FreedomOfWorship #GospelAndPolitics #ImmigrantRights #Kistiakovskii #LawAndMorality #LGBTQRights #MakeAmericaGreatAgain #MAGA #OrthodoxChristian #PoliticalTheology

#KarlBogdanovichWenig (1830-1908)
Portrait of #AlexanderII (1818-1881), Emperor of Russia, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1881-4
Royal Collection
#Romanov

#FranzKrüger (1797-1857)
Portrait of #AlexanderII (1818-1881), Emperor of Russia, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1840
#Hermitage
#Romanov

#GeorgeDawe (1781-1829)
Portrait of #AlexanderII (1818-1881), Emperor of Russia, who was #BornOnThisDay
#Romanov

Portrait photograph of Tsar Alexander II

19 February 1861: Tsar Alexander II abolished serfdom on private estates in #Russia. #History #AlexanderII

The leaders-liberators: Russian Emperor Alexander II and American President Abraham Lincoln

#AbrahamLincoln #Photography #Monument #AlexanderII #AmericanPresident #RussianTsar #Tsar #Emperor #CityMonument #Urban #UrbanPhotography #Lincoln

emancipation of the Russian serfs

#AlexanderII became tsar #OnThisDay in 1855, ruling #Russia until his assassination in 1881; the 'Liberator Tsar' liberated the serfs after Russia's defeat in the Crimean War convinced him of the need to modernize the feudal society to compete with Britain & France:

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