Located near the Catherine Palace and Park, the nearly 500-acre Alexander Park is less formal than its neighbor. The Alexander Palace, which was a frequent retreat for the last czar, Nicholas II ...

Alexander III ruled Russia from 1881 to 1894. He died at the age of 49 in Crimea, in the Maly (Small) Livadia Palace, a summer retreat of the Russian emperor’s family. The four-meter-high ...