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RUSSIA - NICOLAS I

(1/12/1825-2/03/1855)

Nicolas I (7/07/1796-2/03/1855), second son of Paul I, is the brother of Alexander I and the Grand Duke Constantine. On the death of his brother Alexander I on 1 December 1825 and after the cessation of his brother Constantine, it becomes Tsar of all the Russias and starts repressing the liberal movement and the Decembrist uprising in Poland in 1831. After favoring the liberation of Greece, he poses as a defender of the Slavs and opposed the Turks. He is on his way the English and the French. He died before the defeat of the Crimean War.