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  1. His father was assassinated and although he had an older brother, Nicholas, he had TB and died before he could take the throne.
  2. He received training to be a Grand-Duke. This was minimal training most likely for him to become an officer.
  3. the Eastern Orthodox religion, which he believed should be specially cultivated in every right-minded tsar.
  4. A Ukaz that created a number of consultative commissions
  5. Zemstvo, an elective local administration resembling the county and parish councils in England. He also put peasant communes under direct control of the government.
  6. Language, administration, religion.
  7. Jews, and all religious minorities
  8. True, he also was constrained to admit that the Turks were not as black or evil as they had been painted.
  9. Be well prepared for it.
  10. The treaty of San Stefano
  11. the Eastern Question
  12. Great Britain
  13. Dagmar "Marie", Princess of Denmark
  14. Because his older brother had expressed a wish that his affianced bride should marry his successor.
  15. the Trans-Siberian Railroad
  16. Russian, Austria-Hungary, Germany
  17. the Russo-German alliance
  18. His advisors.
  19. His son Nicholas II