ON some features of the political course of Alexander THE 3rd
Alexander III the was the second son of the emperor Alexander II and Maria Alexandrovna. Did not prepare for reigh Alexander Alexandrovich's government therefore he got military education, usual for grand dukes. Special abilities he did not show though he loved military science, literature and music (the cornet - and - a percussion cap and a trombone blew the trumpet). The successor the grand duke Alexander Aleksandrovich became after the death of the elder brother Nicolay who died in Nice on April 24, on April 12 on old style of 1865. Alexander had to return to sciences and to pay special attention to history, economy, and the right. At this moment in an environment of the successor there was K. P. Pobedonostsev who gave to it a right course, and became the chief adviser to the new emperor later. Contemporaries noted that at average mental capacities and education Alexander differed in common sense, an intuition and sharpness. The tsar was laconic; knew French, German and English languages, but in society tried to speak only Russian. In life it was simple, modest and unpretentious. The tsar differed in an athletic build and was famous for the «basilisk look» inherited from the grandfather, the emperor Nicholas I: his look aroused fear very few people could look to Alexander in the face. Determination was combined in it with shyness; the emperor was afraid to go by a horse, hesitated of the big mass of the people. Alexander III cancelled the May parade loved by Petersburgers - when in the first serene day off of May all hundred thousand of capital army marched on the Field of Mars at the highest presence. Business was that the tsar did not take out a type of such mass of troops. During the Russian-Turkish war, still being a successor of a throne, Alexander Aleksandrovich ordered Rushchuksky group (2 cases) and proved to be very adequately. The successor was one of initiators of armed struggle for freedom of Bulgaria. But, having seen with own eyes horrors of war, Crown Prince for the rest of life like to it hatred.