This volume of the Great Rulers gift series is dedicated to Emperor Alexander II, one of the largest reformers in Russian history. His activities largely predetermined the further fate of the country, and the tragic death was the first bloody warning to descendants. Documents, letters, memoirs of contemporaries, notes of eyewitnesses, as well as hundreds of historical and documentary illustrations published in this publication, will allow the reader not only to feel the scale of the activities of the Tsar Liberator, the Russian autocrat, who found the strength to carry out the largest reforms in the history of post-Petrine Russia, but also to see the emperor as a person with all his advantages and disadvantages. The publication continues a series of gift books dedicated to the great rulers of all countries of the world and historical eras. The content, the accuracy of the narrative conducted in the first person, the original composition, the elegant classical design make this series an adornment of the library of the most discerning reader.