The reign of the Emperor Alexander II covers the period from 1855 to 1881. In historiography, this period was called the era of the "Great Reforms", because during this period liberal financial (1860-1870s), university (1863), zemstvo and judicial (1864), censorship (1865), city (1870) and military (1860-1870s) reforms were carried out. But the main achievement of the emperor was the peasant reform of 1861, abolished serfdom in Russia, which was the main brake on the country's development.
