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NICHOLAS I, EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. B. Tsarskoe Seloe, Russia, June 25 (O.S.; July 7,N.S.), 1796; d. St. Petersburg, March 2, 1855. Nicholas, the son of Czar Paul I and Sophia Dorothea of W ü rttemberg, succeeded his brother alexander i as ruler in December 1825. His motto during his three decades as sovereign was "Orthodoxy, Russianism, nationalism."
Nicholas I and Official Nationality in Russia, 1825 - 1855 developed from a much more modest interest in Uvarov's doctrine of "Orthodoxy, autocracy, and nationality." During the author's study of the Slavophiles in particular, he became increasing aware of the paucity of our knowledge of this so-called Official Nationality frequently combined with a deprecating attitude toward it.
As the monarch, Nicholas I pursued a very active foreign politics. The was with Turkey (1828 – 1829) resulted in Ottoman army defeat which in turn contributed to the process of the liberation of Greece from Turkish yoke. The wars in Persia and Caucasus, expeditions in Kamchatka and Russian Far East expanded the territory of Russian Empire. It ...
UNDER NICHOLAS I OF RUSSIA. SAMUEL KUTSCHEROFF. NICHOLAS I (1825-55) gained the reputation of being the most reactionary tsar the Russian Empire ever had. The eminent historian. S. M. Solov'Ev called him "tile new Nebuchadnezzar." The ugly features of a government which oppressed the people and systematically suppressed all enlightenment and ...
According to popular Russian belief, the influence of Rasputin was instrumental in the downfall of the Romanov family. Anastasia's husband, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856–1929), was Commander in Chief of the Russian Army during the first year of World War I, carrying out campaigns on the Austro-German front and in the Caucasus.
Alexander was 17 in 1793 when he married the lovely Elizabeth of Baden, a pretty princess who was only fourteen years old. They were very happy together in the first years of their marriage. Elizabeth looked upon Alexander as her handsome 'prince charming' and he loved her in return. As a wedding present, Catherine gave Alexander the Alexander ...
Nicholas I was a Russian emperor (1825–55), often considered the personification of classic autocracy. For his reactionary policies, he has been called the emperor who froze Russia for 30 years. Nicholas was the son of Grand Duke Paul and Grand Duchess Maria. Some three and a half months after his
