The Abolition of Russian Serfdom.

⛓ #OTD in #History 3 March 1861, #TsarAlexanderII of #Russia signed the Emancipation Manifesto, which freed the serfs and gave them the full rights of free citizens.

A time of crisis
My review of Michael Knox Beran’s Forge of Empires—1861-1871—Three Revolutionary Statesmen and the World They Made #USCivilWar #FrancoPrussianWar #Lincoln #Bismarck #TsarAlexanderII
History Book Reviews: WELCOME TO THE 1860s…
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The Abolition of Russian Serfdom.

⛓ #OTD in #History 3 March 1861, #TsarAlexanderII of #Russia signed the Emancipation Manifesto, which freed the serfs and gave them the full rights of free citizens.

Thieves pinch bottles of bubbly from ‘champagne shipwreck’ found in Baltic The shipwreck was discovered 58 meters beneath the waves near the southern Swedish island of Öland.

Divers mapping a 19th-century shipwreck laden with champagne report that bottles of 150-year-old Louis Roederer, believed to be destined for Tsar Alexander II, have mysteriously “disappeared.”

#Shipwreck #HistoricalChampagne #TsarAlexanderII