Great Alexanders of Russia

Studying Russian language is not just learning the rules and words. You cannot imagine the language without Russian history and culture. We offer you to learn more about it. On the 10^th of March, 1845, Russian emperor Alexander III was born. Today we remind you of several more Alexanders that contributed in Russian culture and history.

Alexander Nevsky (1221 –1263)

Alexander Nevsky served as Prince of Novgorod, Grand Prince of Kiev and Grand Prince of Vladimir during some of the most difficult times in Kievan Rus' history. Commonly regarded as a key figure of medieval Rus', Alexander rose to legendary status on account of his military victories over German and Swedish invaders while agreeing to pay tribute to the powerful Golden Horde. 

Alexander III (1845 –1894)

Alexander III was Emperor of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Prince of Finland from 1881 until his death in 1894. He turned Russia back to the old ideals of patriotism and populism protected by autocracy. Under the reign of Alexander III, Russia’s prestige was enormously high, and the country lived peacefully and orderly. Keeping Russia from war conflicts, he went down in Russian history as Tsar the Peacemaker whose reign gave the country a powerful upsurge in economic and cultural activity at the turn of the twentieth century.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918 –2008)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist, historian, and critic of Soviet totalitarianism. He helped to raise global awareness of the gulag and the Soviet Union's forced labor camp system. While his writings were long suppressed in the USSR, he wrote many books, most notably The Gulag Archipelago, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, August 1914 and Cancer Ward. Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature".

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