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After Peter the Great, who was 204.5 cm in height, Nicholas I was considered the second-tallest Russian emperor. We know that from a story recorded by Russian writer Xenofont Polevoy.
Nicholas I [pron 1] (6 July [ O.S. 25 June] 1796 – 2 March [ O.S. 18 February] 1855) was Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland. He was the third son of Paul I and younger brother of his predecessor, Alexander I. Nicholas's reign began with the failed Decembrist revolt. He is mainly remembered in history as a ...
Nicholas I. Born: Gatchina, 25 June (6 July) 1796. Died: St. Petersburg, 18 February (2 March) 1855. Reigned: 1825-1855. In the 1820s, the Grand Duke Nicholas Pavlovich (the future Emperor Nicholas I) experienced a dramatic change of fate. Theoretically, as the third son of the Emperor Paul, Nicholas did not have the slightest chance of ...
Nicholas I. Born: 1796, Tsarskoe Selo. Died: 1855, St Petersburg. Nicholas I was the ninth child and third son of Paul I and Maria Fyodorovna. He was born in Tsarskoe Selo on 25 June 1796 and baptised on 6 July 1796 with his brother Alexander and sister Alexandra as godparents. Nicholas was born in the last year of the reign of Catherine the ...
Nicholas I ( 6 July [ O.S. 25 June] 1796 – 2 March [ O.S. 18 February] 1855) was Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland. He was the third son of Paul I and younger brother of his predecessor, Alexander I. Nicholas's reign began with the failed Decembrist revolt. He is mainly remembered in history as a ...
Nicholas died in St. Petersburg on March 2 (February 18, Old Style), 1855, feeling that all his system was doomed to destruction. A wholesale change of regime was indicated to his son and successor, Alexander II. Russian Empire - Autocracy, Reforms, Nicholas I: Nicholas was quite unlike Alexander. With a rough nature and incurious intellect, he ...
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Below is the article summary. For the full article, see Nicholas I . Nicholas I, Russian Nikolay Pavlovich, (born July 6, 1796, Tsarkoye Selo, near St. Petersburg, Russia—died March 2, 1855, St. Petersburg), Tsar of Russia (1825–55).
