The New International Encyclopædia/Alexandrov

ALEXANDROV, ä′lĕks-än′dr𝑜f. A town in Russia in the government of Vladimir, on an affluent of the Kliasma, a branch of the Volga, 72 miles east of Moscow (Map: Russia, E 3). It was a favorite summer residence of the Czar Ivan the Terrible, who introduced there the first printing-press known in Russia, in the sixteenth century. It has a magnificent imperial stud, established by the Empress Elizabeth in 1761 and completed about twenty years after. It is noteworthy for its convent, in the burial grounds of which are kept the remains of two sisters of Peter the Great. Pop., 1885, 6700; 1897, 6848.