For want of funds, Alexander was unable to resist the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights or prevent Grand Duke of Muscovy Ivan III from ravaging Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the Tatars.

Alexander Alexandrovich () ( 10 March 1845 – 1 November 1894 ), known historically as Alexander III or Alexander the Peacemaker reigned as Emperor of Russia from until his death on.

Alexander III as Tsesarevich, by Sergei Lvovich Levitsky.

An account from the memoirs of the artist Alexander Benois gives one impression of Alexander III:

In more ordinary cases Tsar Alexander III could be at once kind, simple, and even almost homely.

Alexander was the fourth son of Malcolm III by his wife Margaret of Wessex, grandniece of Edward the Confessor.

Peace between Henry III, the French prince and Alexander followed on 12 September 1217 with the treaty of Kingston.

The marriage took place on 15 May 1239, and produced one son, the future Alexander III, born in 1241.

His only legitimate child and son, by his second wife, Alexander III succeeded him as King of Scots.

Marie de Coucy, who became mother of Alexander III of Scotland

Alexander III ( Medieval Gaelic: Alaxandair mac Alaxandair ; Modern Gaelic: Alasdair mac Alasdair ) ( 4 September 1241 – 19 March 1286 ) was King of Scots from 1249 to his death.

Alexander III was also the grandson of William the Lion.

At the marriage of Alexander to Margaret of England in 1251, Henry III of England seized the opportunity to demand from his son-in-law homage for the Scottish kingdom, but Alexander did not comply.

Alexander III being rescued from the fury of a stag by Colin Fitzgerald

Alexander had married Princess Margaret of England, a daughter of King Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence, on 26 December 1251.

In 1886, a monument to Alexander III was erected at the approximate location of his death in Kinghorn.

Alexander III has been depicted in historical novels.

It includes depictions of Alexander III and his opponent Haakon IV of Norway.

The novel covers the entire reign of Alexander III ( 1249 – 1286 ), " almost entirely from Alexander's viewpoint ".

A crime fiction novel where Hugh Corbett investigates the " mysterious death " of Alexander III ( 1286 ).

These include the Chicago Picasso, Miró's Chicago, Flamingo and Flying Dragon by Alexander Calder, Monument with Standing Beast by Jean Dubuffet, Batcolumn by Claes Oldenburg, Cloud Gate by Anish Kapoor, Crown Fountain by Jaume Plensa, and the Four Seasons mosaic by Marc Chagall.

* Monument to Emperor Alexander II of Russia in Kiev ( 1911 )

* Monument to Alexander VII by Bernini in St Peter's Basilica

Monument to Alexander Dubček

* Alexander Dallas Bache Monument – Bache's tomb in the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, DC.

* Monument to Admiral Lord Thomas Alexander Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald

The Monument to Nicholas I was Montferrand's last work, commissioned by Alexander II in May 1856.

Monument to Sir Alexander Ball in the Lower Barrakka Gardens

the one in the back, the Warner Monument created by Alexander Milne Calder ( 1879 ) features the spirit or soul of the deceased being released.

These included the design work for the Boer War Memorial Fountain in Windsor, Ontario ( 1906 ), the South African War Memorial in Toronto ( 1910 ), The Baldwin-Lafontaine Monument on Parliament Hill in Ottawa ( 1914 ) and the Bell Memorial commemorating Alexander Graham Bell's invention of telephone in Brantford, Ontario ( 1917 ).

After 1851, the Kremlin changed little until the Russian Revolution of 1917 ; the only new features added during this period were the Monument to Alexander II and a stone cross marking the spot where Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia was assassinated by Ivan Kalyayev in 1905.

Other monuments at Hyde Park Corner include Jones's Monument to the Cavalry of the Empire ( off the west side of Park Lane ), Alexander Munro's Boy and Dolphin statue ( in a rose garden parallel to Rotten Row, going west from Hyde Park Corner ), the Wellington Monument ( off the west side of Park Lane ) and a statue of Byron ( on a traffic island opposite the Wellington Monument ).

Pietro Giacomo Porcelli ( 30 January 1872 – 28 June 1943 ) was an Italian-born sculptor responsible for many statues in Western Australia, including the Explorers ' Monument, and those of C. Y. O ' Connor and Alexander Forrest.

Monument of Patrick Alexander Vans Agnew in Multan

* Alexander Hamilton Monument, ( 1923 ), James Earle Fraser sculptor, Washington D. C.

File: Alexander Graham Bell Brantford Monument 0. 98. jpg | The Bell Telephone Memorial, commemorating the invention of the telephone, Brantford, Ontario.

Monument to Nikolai Przhevalski in the Alexander Garden ( Saint Petersburg ) | Alexander Garden, Saint Petersburg

Monument To Alexander Matrosov

In addition to the works above mentioned, Fellows published the following: The Xanthian Marbles ; their Acquisition and Transmission to England ( 1843 ), a refutation of false statements that had been published ; An Account of the Ionic Trophy Monument excavated at Xanthus ( 1848 ); a cheap edition of his two Journals, entitled Travels and Researches in Asia Minor, particularly in the Province of Lycia ( 1852 ); and Coins of Ancient Lycia before the Reign of Alexander ; with an Essay on the Relative Dates of the Lycian Monuments in the British Museum ( 1855 ).

William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling | William Alexander Monument, built of stones from his Menstrie Castle, Victoria Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia ( 1957 )

Alexander the Great, who used runners as message carriers, did not have to worry about having every officer in his command hear what he said and having hundreds of them comment at once.

but Leger, Arp, Lipchitz and Alexander Calder, at the time, gave him their blessing.

Interestingly enough, the order transmitted to Morgan through Alexander Hamilton also informed him that `` A party of Indians will join the party to be sent from your command at Whitemarsh, and act with them ''.

He had sat beside Alexander Brandel at the rostrum of a congress of Zionists.

Hostile glances were flashed at both Alexander and Gansevoort.

He leaned closer to Alexander, squinting up at him from the deck.

As for Cousin Alexander Carraway, the only thing Theresa could remember at the moment about him ( except his paper knife ) was that he had had exceptionally long hands and feet and one night about one o'clock in the morning the whole Stubblefield family had been aroused to go next door at Cousin Emma's call -- first Papa, then Mother, then Theresa and George.

The first undoubted instance is the bull by which Alexander II in 1063 granted the use of the mitre to Egelsinus, abbot of the monastery of St Augustine at Canterbury.

In 334 BC, Alexander I, at the request of the Greek colony of Taras ( in Magna Graecia ), crossed over into Italy, to aid them in battle against several Italic tribes, the Lucanians and Bruttii.

He reports there that as Alexander of Epirus lay mortally wounded on the battlefield at Pandosia he compared his fortunes to those of his famous nephew and said that the latter " waged war against women ".

Alexander governed tyrannically, and according to Diodorus, differently from the former rulers, but Polyphron, at least, seems to have set him the example.

On arrival of Pelopidas at Larissa, whence according to Diodorus, he dislodged the Macedonian garrison, Alexander presented himself and offered submission.

When Pelopidas expressed indignation at the tales of Alexander's profligacy and cruelty, Alexander took alarm and fled.

If the death of Epaminondas in 362 BC freed Athens from fear of Thebes, it appears at the same time to have exposed it to further aggression from Alexander of Pherae, who made a piratical raid on Tinos and other cities of the Cyclades, plundering them, and making slaves of the inhabitants.

Alexander Jagellon never felt at home in Poland, and bestowed his favor principally upon his fellow Lithuanians, the most notable of whom was the wealthy Lithuanian magnate Michael Glinski, who justified his master's confidence by his great victory over the Tatars at Kleck ( 5 August 1506 ), news of which was brought to Alexander on his deathbed in Vilnius.

* Alexander at Find-A-Grave

Alexander did not remarry and Walter Bower wrote that he planned an Augustinian Priory at the Eilean nam Ban dedicated to Sybilla's memory, and he may have taken steps to have her venerated.

Alexander had at least one illegitimate child, Máel Coluim mac Alaxandair, who was later to be involved in a revolt against David I in the 1130s.

Andrew of Wyntoun's Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland says that Alexander was holding court at Invergowrie when he was attacked by " men of the Isles ".

Alexander died in April 1124 at his court at Stirling ; his brother David, probably the acknowledged heir since the death of Sybilla, succeeded him.