Tsar+Nicholas+I

By Rachel and Mackenzie Taing

Nicholas I of Russia was born on July 6 1796 .Ruled from 1825 until 1855, was often personified for classic autocracy; of his reactionary policies, often in titled for freezing Russia for 30 years of the Russian monarchs. On the eve of his death, the Russian Empire reached its historically speaking peaks spanning over 20 million square kilometres. He was also the theoretical King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland. Nicholas was born in Gatchina to [|Emperor Paul I] and [|Empress Maria Feodorovna] their third son. He was a younger brother to [|Alexander I of Russia] and [|Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich] of Russia. His brother and predecessor, Alexander I, without bearing a child passed on in the year of 1825. Constantine, the second son, was next in succession but had secretly renounced the throne after marrying a Polish aristocrat in 1822. Many people were very confused and set up decembrists of members from secret revolutionary societies whose activities led to the uprising of Dec., 1825, against Nicholas. The Decemberist Revolt was on December 26 1825. Nicholas was able to suppress this revolt. Since this happened on his first dat of reign, he made sure that he restrained Russian society. The government exercised censorship and other controls over education, publishing, and all manifestations of public life. Nicholas died March 2 1855. He had caught a chill yet refused to tend to it because of how busy he was. It then led to pneumonia.

The motto “autocracy, orthodoxy, and nationality,” expressing the applied principles to education, was used by Nicholas in suppressing liberal thought, controlling the universities, increasing censorship of media, persecuting religious and national minorities, and strengthening the secret police. Intellectual life was happening, the revolutionary movement was soon taking form.

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