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The tsar was responsible for other liberal reforms, including reorganizing the judicial system, setting up elected local judges, abolishing corporal punishment , [ 2 ] promoting local self-government through the zemstvo system, imposing universal military service, ending some privileges of the nobility, and promoting university education.

After an assassination attempt in , Alexander adopted a somewhat more conservative stance until his death. Alexander was also notable for his foreign policy, which was mainly pacifist, supportive of the United States , and opposed to Great Britain. Despite his otherwise pacifist foreign policy, he fought a brief war with the Ottoman Empire in —78 , leading to the independence of Bulgaria , Montenegro , Romania and Serbia.

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He pursued further expansion into the Far East , leading to the founding of Vladivostok ; into the Caucasus , approving plans leading to the Circassian genocide ; [ 6 ] and into Turkestan. Although disappointed by the results of the Congress of Berlin in , Alexander abided by that agreement. Among his greatest domestic challenges was an uprising in Poland in , to which he responded by stripping Poland of its separate constitution, incorporating it directly into Russia and abolishing serfdom there.

Alexander was proposing additional parliamentary reforms to counter the rise of nascent revolutionary and anarchistic movements when he was assassinated in His early life gave little indication of his ultimate potential; until the time of his accession in , aged 37, few imagined that posterity would know him for implementing the most challenging reforms undertaken in Russia since the reign of Peter the Great.

His uncle Emperor Alexander I died childless. Grand Duke Konstantin , the next-younger brother of Alexander I, had previously renounced his rights to the throne of Russia.