Alexander III of Russia

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Alexander III of Russia (10 March 1845 – 1 November 1894) (Russian: Александр Третий Александрович (Aleksandr III Aleksandrovich)) reigned as Emperor of Russia from 13 March 1881 until his death in 1894. He is to be featured in Assassin's Creed: The Fall.

In his lifetime, the Assassin Nikolai Orelov confronted Alexander III on the imperial train in order to retrieve a "priceless artifact".

Historical Background

Historically, Alexander III is infamous in Russia for instuting pogroms against the Jews and overturning many of the reforms set in place by his father, Alexander II. The Tsar came to power just two weeks after his father had been murdered by revolutionaries. Alexander took revenge by executing the assassins, then built the massive cathedral of the Church of the Holy Savior of Spilled Blood on the site in St. Petersburg (Petrograd) where his father had been murdered. He then set about to stamp out all traces of revolutionary fever in Russia, while simultaneously continuing the policy of forced industrialization that his father had begun years before.