When a church was built over the spot in St Petersburg where Tsar Alexander II of Russia had been assassinated, the " Church of the Savior on Blood ", the natural style to use was one that best evoked traditional Russian features ( illustration, left ).

When the Tsar took control of the army in the front lines during World War I, he left his wife in charge of Russia for he trusted only her.

When, under the Treaty of Berlin ( 1878 ), Bulgaria became an autonomous principality under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire, the Tsar recommended his nephew to the Bulgarians as a candidate for the newly-created throne, and the Grand National Assembly unanimously elected Prince Alexander as Prince of Bulgaria ( 29 April 1879 ).

When he became Tsar, he brought more German experts ( and other foreigners ) into Russia, and particularly into government service, in his attempts to westernize the empire.

When she was briefly imprisoned at Perm in 1918, Princess Helena Petrovna, the wife of Anastasia's distant cousin, Prince Ioann Konstantinovich of Russia, reported that a guard brought a girl who called herself Anastasia Romanova to her cell and asked if the girl was the daughter of the Tsar.

When the Tsar finally reached his destination, the Army Chiefs and his remaining ministers ( those who had not fled under pretense of a power-cut ) suggested in unison that he abdicate the throne.

When his father died, " young king " Marko legally became a king and the co-ruler of Tsar Uroš.

When the new Tsar started to undo some of the reforms that his father, Alexander II had promulgated, Count Loris-Melikov resigned several months later and lived in retirement until his death at Nice on 22 December 1888.

When the Serbian King ( Tsar ) Dušan, died in 1355, the city passed into the hands of the Albanian family of Thopias.

When the bodies of the Tsar and some of his family were discovered in 1979, the remains were later identified by DNA, using among others, Prince Michael's blood sample for recognition.

When told by the Russians to submit to the rule of the Tsar and to pay yasak ( tribute ), the Daurs would often refuse, saying that they already pay tribute to the Shunzhi Emperor ( whose name the Russians recorded from the Daurs as Shamshakan ).

When they refused, he told the Tsar that he ( Goremykin ) was " not fitted for my position " and asked to be replaced with " a man of more modern views ".

When Tsar Simeon the Great began expanding his kingdom of Bulgaria, he gained control of a segment of " White Croatia ", forcing Prince Laborec ( a local ruler ) to recognize his authority at the end of the 9th century.

When the Russian Tsar Nicholas II was the Tsarevich under Alexander III, the young Nicholas II visited Japan and was injured during the Ōtsu Incident by a Japanese policeman.

When the first dedicated opera house in Finland was finally completed and inaugurated in 1993, the old opera house was given back its original name, the Alexander Theater, after the Tsar Alexander II.

When Boris was elected Tsar in 1598, he required those at the court to sign a loyalty oath, which prohibited them from recognizing Simeon as tsar or corresponding with him.

When he returned to the town, Donelaitis refused to preach praises to the Russian Tsar.

When he arrived there, he was sent by Napoleon to the city of Wilna, where the Tsar was ; the comte de Narbonne-Lara was the bearer of an ultimatum, to which Alexander I categorically refused.

When the Tsar Boris heard about the pretender, he claimed that the man was just a runaway monk called Grigory Otrepyev ( born Yury Otrepyev ; Grigory was the name given at the monastery ), although on what information he based this claim is unclear.

When Tsar Peter the Great visited the Netherlands in 1698, he heard the perfect tuned Hemony carillons in Amsterdam and Leiden singing all 24 hours of the day, every quarter of an hour automatically.

When Tsar Alexander I appointed Count Lieven ambassador to Great Britain in 1812, Dorothea von Lieven used her intelligence, charisma, and social skills to make herself a leader of London ’ s politically-infused society, thereby contributing materially to the success of her husband ’ s embassy.

When Feodor died in 1682, her 10-year old son became Tsar Peter the Great.

When Tsar Nicholas inaugurated the Peace Conference at the Hague, Count Muravyov extricated his country from a situation of some embarrassment in China ; but when, subsequently, Russian agents in Manchuria and Peking connived at the agitation which culminated in the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, relations between Muravyov and the tsar became strained.

When arrived to Moscow in early 1610 this Swedish-Finnish army unit suppressed the rebellion in Moscow organised against Tsar and took control over Moscow.

When Alexander Brandel rose to speak, the hall became silent.

When the mast was raised, Alexander gave the order for Small and Cromwell to be placed under arrest, and now three figures in irons sprawled upon the open deck and terror stalked the Somers.

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

When Ewen rejected these attempts, Alexander sailed forth to compel him, but on the way he suffered a fever at the Isle of Kerrera in the Inner Hebrides.

When Alexander became emperor, he was young, amiable, well-meaning, and entirely under the dominion of his mother.

When Alexander was trying to show that he is divine so that the Greeks and Macedonians would perform proskynesis to him, Anaxarchus said that Alexander could " more justly be considered a god than Dionysus or Heracles " ( Arrian, 104 )

When using the works of his authorities Alexander does not only review their reasoning but also gives conclusions, expands on them, and offers his agreements and disagreement with them.

When Babrius set down fables from the Aesopica in verse for a Hellenistic Prince " Alexander ," he expressly stated at the head of Book II that this type of " myth " that Aesop had introduced to the " sons of the Hellenes " had been an invention of " Syrians " from the time of " Ninos " ( personifying Nineveh to Greeks ) and Belos (" ruler ").

When Alexander died in 1124, the crown passed to Margaret's fourth son David I, who had spent most of his life as an English baron.

When Alexander II came to the throne in 1855, desire for reform was widespread.

When Eisenhower was appointed Supreme Allied Commander for the planned Normandy Landings he suggested that Alexander become ground forces commander, as he was popular with both British and US officers.

When Karađorđe was killed by Miloš Obrenović, a feud between the two houses of Karađorđević and the Obrenović developed which lasted until the Obrenović King Alexander I was killed in 1903 with his family and the Karadjordjević returned to the throne.

When Beria complimented Alexander Poskrebyshev's daughter on her beauty, Poskrebyshev quickly pulled her aside and instructed her, " Don't ever accept a lift from Beria.

When Rodrigo became Pope Alexander VI he sought to be allied with powerful princely families and founding dynasties of Italy.

When Maria's eldest sister Alexandra visited Gatchina in July 1894, she was surprised to see how weak her brother-in-law Alexander III had become.

When Alexander the Great reached Egypt, he put his whole vast enterprise on hold, while he made his way with a small band deep into the Libyan desert, to consult the oracle of Ammun.

When Innocent X died, Chigi, the candidate favoured by Spain, was elected pope after eighty days in the conclave, on 7 April 1655, taking the name of Alexander VII.

When she came aboard, Worf learned he had a son named Alexander.

When Pope Hadrian IV died in 1159, the divided cardinals elected two popes: Roland of Siena, who took the name of Alexander III, and Octavian of Rome who, though nominated by fewer cardinals, was supported by Frederick and assumed the name of Pope Victor IV.

When Henry James's Guy Domville failed, Alexander turned to Wilde and agreed to put on his play.

When Wallace was growing up, King Alexander III ruled Scotland.

When he was six years old his mother married Alexander " Sasha " Walden ( born in Ufa, Russia in 1897 ), a double-bass player in the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra.

When the treaty arranging the marriage of Margaret and Eric was signed at Roxburgh on 25 July 1281, Alexander III's younger son David had already died in June 1281, leaving the King of Scots with only one legitimate son, Alexander.