Tsar Alexander II of Russia and his staff drawing a Tree by Leonardo da Vinci The villa has a greenhouse

The villa has a greenhouse to one side

the cocoa plum (Catesby's identifications

Church of St John at Hackney

Pictured in Montreal with Gold medal and Silver medal he later won in 100 metre breaststroke

Tsar Alexander II of Russia and his staff drawing a Tree by Leonardo da Vinci The villa has a greenhouseTsar Alexander II of Russia and his staff, (1900). Alexander II (1818 1881) pictured seated, flanked by King Carol I of Romania (left) and Grand Duke Nicholas (right), probably during the Russo Turkish War of 1877 1878. Alexander became Tsar in 1855 at the height of the Crimean War. Known as 'The Liberator' for his emancipation of the serfs in 1861, he was assassinated in St Petersburg by a bomb thrown by a member of a revolutionary group known as