This ruler placed Pyotr Shuvalov in charge of the Third Department, which operated as a secret police force. This ruler's country's first use of conscription came from the military reforms of Dmitry Milyutin. Mikhail Loris-Melikov served as Minister of the Interior to this ruler and wrote up a reforming constitution that this leader signed. This man also set up a system of local assemblies called zemstvos and issued a ukase in 1861 that emancipated all the serfs in his country. For 10 points, name this tsar who came to power during the Crimean War after the death of Nicholas I, and whose assassination by the People's Will in 1881 led to his succession by Alexander II
This ruler placed Pyotr Shuvalov in charge of the Third Department, which operated as a secret police force. This ruler's country's first use of conscription came from the military reforms of Dmitry Milyutin. Mikhail Loris-Melikov served as Minister of the Interior to this ruler and wrote up a reforming constitution that this leader signed. This man also set up a system of local assemblies called zemstvos and issued a ukase in 1861 that emancipated all the serfs in his country. For 10 points, name this tsar who came to power during the Crimean War after the death of Nicholas I, and whose assassination by the People's Will in 1881 led to his succession by Alexander III.
This ruler placed Pyotr Shuvalov in charge of the Third Department, which operated as a secret police force.
Alexander II of Russia [or Aleksander Nikolayevich; prompt on Alexander]