- The great-grandfather of Pavel Bure and Valeri Bure was the Czar's watchmaker.
- His son Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Tsarina Alexandra, and their five children, Grand Duchess Olga, Grand Duchess Tatiana, Grand Duchess Maria, Grand Duchess Anastasia and Tsarvich Alexei where executed by Bolshevik Communists in 1918.
- On his brother Nicholas's deathbed, he told Alexander that he wanted him to marry his bride, Princess Dagmar of Denmark (Marie Feodorovna)
- Had six children: Nicholas (1868-1918), Alexander (1869-1870), George (1871-1899), Xenia (1875-1960), Michael (1878-1918) and Olga (1882-1960).
- His older brother Tsarevich Nicholas died in 1865, which made Alexander the new Tsarevich.
- Was the Tsar of Russia from March 14, 1881 until his death on November 1, 1894. After his death his son, Nicholas became Tsar.
- Great-grandfather of Xenia Kulikovsky. Great-great grandfather of Paul Kulikovsky.
- Son of Tsar Alexander II and Maria Alexandrovna (Marie of Hesse).
- Had two older siblings: Grand Duchess Alexandra (1842-1849) and Tsarevich Nikolay (1843-1865), and 5 younger siblings: Grand Duke Vladimir (1847-1909), Grand Duke Alexei (1850-1908), Grand Duchess Maria (1853-1920), Grand Duke Sergei (1857-1905) and Grand Duke Paul (1860-1919).
- Grandchildren: Grand Duchess Olga (1895-1918), Grand Duchess Tatiana (1897-1918), Grand Duchess Maria (1899-1918), Grand Duchess Anastasia (1901-1918), and Aleksey Nikolaeyvitch Romanov (1904-1918, Nicholas' children). Princess Irina (1895-1970), Prince Andrei (1897-1981), Prince Feodor (1898-1968), Prince Nikita (1900-1974), Prince Dmitri (1901-1980), Prince Rostislav (1902-1978) and Prince Vasili (1907 - 23 June 1989, Xenia's children). George Mikhailovich, Count Brasov (1910-1931, Michael's son), Tikhon Nikolaevich Kulikovsky (1917-1993)and Guri Nikolaevich Kulikovsky (1919-1984, Olga's sons).
- He was famed for his stature and incredible physical strength, often the six foot four inch, seventeen stones, Tzar would astonish his guests by bending horse-shoes and twisting metal bars out of shape with his bare hands.
- Great-grandfather of Olga Romanoff. Great-great grandfather of Francis Mathew.
- In Central Asian affairs he followed the traditional policy of gradually extending Russian domination without provoking conflict with the United Kingdom (see Panjdeh Incident), and he never allowed the bellicose partisans of a forward policy to get out of hand. His reign cannot be regarded as an eventful period of Russian history; but under his hard rule the country made considerable progress.
- Despite chilly relations with Berlin, the Tsar nevertheless confined himself to keeping a large number of troops near the German frontier. With regard to Bulgaria he exercised similar self-control. The efforts of Prince Alexander and afterwards of Stambolov to destroy Russian influence in the principality roused his indignation, but he vetoed all proposals to intervene by force of arms.
- On the day of his assassination Alexander II had signed an ukaz setting up consultative commissions to advise the monarch. On ascending to the throne, however, Alexander III took Pobedonostsev's advice and cancelled the policy before its publication. He made it clear that his autocracy would not be limited.
- The Russian famine of 1891-92, which caused 375,000 to 500,000 deaths, and the ensuing cholera epidemic permitted some liberal activity, as the Russian government could not cope with the crisis and had to allow zemstvos to help with relief (among others, Tolstoy helped organize soup-kitchens, and Chekhov directed anti-cholera precautions in several villages).
- Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich was born on 10 March 1845 at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, the second son and third child of Emperor Alexander II and his first wife Maria Alexandrovna (née Princess Marie of Hesse).
- Alexander and his wife regularly spent their summers at Langinkoski manor along the Kymi River near Kotka on the Finnish coast, where their children were immersed in a Scandinavian lifestyle of relative modesty.
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