Round 6: Tossup 9

The Narodnik movement agitated against a ruler with this name who oversaw the Circassian genocide. Another ruler with this name allied with Napoleon in the first Treaty of Tilsit after a defeat at the Battle of Friedland. After that ruler with this name died, a group of liberal revolutionaries fought for the accession of his brother Konstantin, sparking the Decembrist revolt. Under a ruler with this name, local assemblies known as (-5[1])zemstvo (10[1])were created. A reformist tsar with this name ruled Russia from 1855 (10[1])until his 1881 assassination. For 10 points, what first name was shared by three 19th-century tsars of Russia, including one who emancipated the serfs in 1861? ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

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