LONDON, March 25. -- It is generally agreed, says the St. Petersburg correspondent of The Times, that the Czar's manifesto was due in great part to the influence of personal acquaintances.

In 1811, Tsar Alexander I, supposedly allied with Napoleon, refused to be part of the continental blockade of British goods any longer. Napoleon’s edict barring trade with Great Britain was ...

Passed in April, 1906, the Fundamental Laws were an edict from the Tsar. They confirmed the October Manifesto but also asserting the Tsar’s powers over the Duma: the right to rule independently ...