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08:48:47 -0800 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:48:47 -0800 en-us 60 Why did
he buy the Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks? <a
href="">Alexander II</a> was known as the <a href="">liberator
of serfs</a>, because under his rule, in 1861, serfs were
granted the freedom to marry without having to gain consent, to
own property, and to own businesses. In 1862, Alexander II
signed off on the <a href="">ethnic cleansing of Circassians</a>
that began as a simple resettlement, and led to (by official
Tsarist documents, more by other accounts) over 400,000 deaths.
Circassians in fact <a href="">protest the 2014 Olympics</a> in
<a href="">Sochi</a> being that it was the supposed site of
their final expulsion. In the late 1850s, Alexander II moved to
assimilate the Polish people that had rebelled under his
father's reign by restoring the rights of the Polish to elect
local assemblies. However, Polish exiles ab