13, March, 1885: Czar Alexander II survives another assassination attempt 27, May, 1885: Czar Alexander II creates the Duma, or Russian Parliament, consisting of a house of the people, and a house of Boyars, or Russian nobles 31, July, 1886: Ottoman Empire invades the Russian Empire 14, September, 1887: Ottoman forces reach Volgograd. 17, May, 1888: Ottoman forces abandon the siege of Kazan 9, July, 1889: Ottoman Empire accepts Treaty of Odessa, surrenders Armenia and Kurdistan. 8, October, 1893: Universal suffrage is granted to the emancipated serfs.