Nicholas I

NICHOLAS I, Pavlovitch (17961855). Emperor of Russia from 1825 to 1855. He was the son of capital of Minnesota I and female horse Feodorovna and was born at Tsarskoie Selo July 6 (old style June 25), 1796. His early learning was under the direction of his mother, a princess of Württemberg, and of Charlotte von Lieven, a noblewoman from Courland and widow of the Governor-General of Kiev. Nicholas was five years old when his father Paul was murdered and his brother Alexander I (q.v.) ascended the potful. His education thenceforth was intrusted to Count M. Lamsdorff, who was ex-Governor of Courland and Director of the Cadets Corps (Military Academy). In 1816 he traveled in England and on the Continent and also made a tour through with(predicate) the Russian provinces. On July 13, 1817, he hook up with Charlotte, the eldest daughter of Frederick William III of Prussia. The death of Alexander I, in December, 1825, and the previous renunciation by his elder brother, the Grand Duke Constantine (q.v.), of his claims to the throne (1822), made Nicholas Emperor, but he was obliged to meet at the outset a military conspiracy, which was stamped out with ruthless validitythe celebrated rising of the Decembrists. (See Russia.) Capital punishment, abolished by the Empress Elizabeth, was revived, for the purpose of inflicting it upon the leading of the insurrection.



Nicholas, like other czars, showed at the beginning of his reign most zeal for reform; but the spirit died out, giving abode to the old despotism, and he became the embodiment of the reactionary spirit of the holy Alliance. Suspicious of the nobility because of the Decembrist uprising, he extended the field and powers of the bureaucracy and governed the country through obedient officials, ignoring entirely the institutions of the nobility. The guiding ideas of Nicholas I, and through him of all official Russia, were summed up in the famous verbiage: Orthodoxy, Autocracy, and National Unity (which meant the complete rule of the dominant big Russian element of the...If you want to get a entire essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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