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

Alexander III Monument at KinghornTowards the end of Alexander's reign, the death of all three of his children within a few years made the question of the succession one of pressing importance.

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 ).

Alexander, a critic of the government, hopes to use Alex as a symbol of state brutality and thereby prevent the incumbent government from being re-elected.

" The Athenian admiral Leosthenes defeated Alexander and managed to relieve Peparethus, but Alexander escaped from being blockaded in Panormus, took several Attic triremes, and plundered the Piraeus.

Alexander Selkirk ( 1676 – 13 December 1721 ) was a Scottish sailor who spent four years as a castaway after being marooned on an uninhabited island.

Alexander believed his work could be applied to improve individual health and well being.

He gave lectures on category theory in the forests surrounding Hanoi while the city was being bombed, to protest against the Vietnam War ( The Life and Work of Alexander Grothendieck, American Mathematical Monthly, vol.

Alexander advances the idea that it is would not be God ’ s fault to create a being that would bind the ‘ corrupt ’ with the ‘ clean ’.

It appears that Arius reproached Alexander for what he felt were misguided or heretical teachings being taught by the bishop.

Daniel also foresees the Greek Empire being divided among the four generals upon the death of Alexander.

In 1173 Pope Alexander III, after reprimanding certain bishops for having permitted veneration of a man who was far from being a saint, decreed: " You shall not therefore presume to honour him in the future ; for, even if miracles were worked through him, it is not lawful for you to venerate him as a saint without the authority of the Catholic Church.

After nearly being excommunicated for his heresy by Alexander of Alexandria, Eusebius submitted and agreed to the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Nicea in 325.

* 1709 – Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

Alexander Guchkov charged him with being a member of this illegal and orgiastic sect.

Alexander resents being identified constantly with his fin-headed Dr Lazarus role and wants nothing to do with the catchphrase that he has heard too many fans repeat.

Alexander was born in London, the third son of the Earl and Countess of Caledon, the latter being a daughter of the Earl of Norbury.

Alexander then held staff appointments as ( from January 1931 ) GSO2 in the Directorate of Military Training at the War Office and ( 1932-4 ) GSO1 at HQ Northern Command, York, before being made in October 1934 a temporary brigadier and given command of the Nowshera Brigade, on the Northwest Frontier in India.

Also, in commemoration of Alexander being named the first non-aboriginal chief of the Kwakiutl tribe, he was gifted a totem pole on 13 July 1946 ; crafted by Mungo Martin, it remains on the grounds of Rideau Hall today.

While László Polgár has been credited with being an excellent chess coach, the Polgárs had also employed professional chessplayers to train their daughters, including Hungarian champion IM Tibor Florian, Hungarian GM Pal Benko and Russian GM Alexander Chernin.

* 1804 – Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies a day after being shot in a duel.

In the 1790s he fretted over an aging George Washington being too much influenced by close advisers such as Alexander Hamilton, who Monroe thought too close to Britain.

Jericho went from being an administrative centre of Yehud Medinata under Persian rule to serving as the private estate of Alexander the Great between 336 and 323 BCE after his conquest of the region.

Many people believed he, and other Jeffersonians such as James Madison, were being hypocritical by doing something they surely would have argued against with Alexander Hamilton.

Empress Maria with her son, future Nicholas IIThe family of Alexander III being blessed by Jesus Christ in a portrait by Makarov. On the morning of 13 March 1881, Alexander II, aged sixty-two, was killed by a bomb on the way back to the Winter Palace from a military parade.