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.

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 ).

Philip, however, declined the contest, and formed a second alliance with Alexander by giving him his daughter ( Alexander I's niece ) Cleopatra in marriage ( 336 BC ).

In 1924 in the UK the chemist Harold Plenderleith began to work at the British Museum with Dr. Alexander Scott in the newly created Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, thus giving birth to the conservation profession in the UK.

Another of Darius ' generals ingratiated himself to Alexander by giving the conqueror Darius ' favored companion, Bagoas.

Walter was the heir to the earldom of Lennox and had been in open revolt against his father during 1423 for not giving way to his younger brother Alexander for this title.

With Roxana giving birth to Alexander the Great's son, Alexander IV Aegus, a compromise is reached by the Macedonian generals so that he and Alexander the Great's young and dim-witted brother Philip III Arrhidaeus, are to be considered joint rulers.

In 1988, she moved to Miami with Elin and Shalim, and in late 1989, she became pregnant again, giving birth in 1990 to twins, a boy ( Alexander ) and a girl ( Sharina ).

His mother, a competent musician, began giving him piano lessons at five, until the teacher Alexander Villoing heard and accepted Rubinstein as a non-paying student.

Alexander Balas honored the victorious High Priest by giving him the city of Ekron along with its outlying territory.

Duchin would often use beautiful, soft-voiced singers such as Durelle Alexander and Lew Sherwood to accommodate his sweet and romantic songs, giving them extra appeal and making them more interesting.

When it became apparent that the couple were unlikely to have a son, Queen Victoria renamed Alexander Duke of Fife and Earl of Macduff in the peerage of the United Kingdom in 1900, giving the second dukedom of Fife a special remainder in default of male issue to the Duke's daughters and their agnatic male descendants.

They welcomed Alexander as their king, placed him on the throne of the Pharaohs, giving him the crown of Upper and Lower Egypt, and named him the incarnation of Ra and Osiris.

He gained popular recognition in 1806, after giving a sermon concerning the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.

In Series " C ", in the episode " Cheating ", the panellists had to keep their own scores, and received 100 points for getting their exact answers, which Alexander Armstrong did, giving him 93 points.

These issues achieved particular prominence in 2012 when Alexander Gianturco ( known in-game as The Mittani ), the leader of Goonswarm ( one of the largest and most influential alliances in the game ), was issued with a temporary ban and forced to resign as Chairman of the Council of Stellar Management after giving a live-streamed public presentation at the annual FanFest event in Iceland in which he mocked a player who had expressed suicidal thoughts and encouraged the audience watching live and online to grief the player in-game if they wanted the player to kill himself.

Alexander oversaw the Scottish Executive ’ s response to the recommendations of the McIntosh Commission into the future of local government in Scotland, introducing a package of measures for local government including giving local authorities the lead role in developing Community Planning, creating a formal Power of Community Initiative ( later known as a power of well being ) and establishing the Renewing Local Democracy ( Kerley ) Working Party on electoral systems.

Alexander John Forsyth as a solution to the problem that birds would startle when smoke puffed from the powder pan of his flintlock shotgun, giving them sufficient warning to escape the shot.

Among other poems inspired by her are K N., and Ia pomniu vremia zolotoe … Published extracts from the letters and diaries of Maximilian von Lerchenfeld illuminate the first years of Tyutchev as a diplomat in Munich ( 1822 – 26 ), giving details of his frustrated love affair for Amélie, nearly involving a duel ( probably with his colleague, Baron Alexander von Krüdener ), in January 1825.

Also in this match, Jardine enraged Harry Alexander by asking him not to run on the pitch as he was damaging it and giving his side an advantage.

The film was notable for giving character actor Alexander Knox ( in the title role ) one of his few chances to play the lead in a film.

Lauzon talks Georges into giving back the love letters from Alexander, which at the time the novel is set meant that a relationship was over.

Mrs. Caroline Brody ( Elizabeth Perkins ) and her son Scott ( Alexander Pollock ) bring in the groceries and the family's Bloodhound Buddy immediately starts giving chase to a cat.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President is authorized to award posthumously appropriate medals and certificates to Chaplain George L. Fox of Gilman, Vermont ; Chaplain Alexander D. Goode of Washington, District of Columbia ; Chaplain Clark V. Poling of Schenectady, New York ; and Chaplain John P. Washington of Arlington, New Jersey, in recognition of the extraordinary heroism displayed by them when they sacrificed their lives in the sinking of the troop transport Dorchester in the North Atlantic in 1943 by giving up their life preservers to other men aboard such transport.