Portrait of Grand Duke Nikolai Pavlovich in adolescence

The artist is unknown

Nicholas I Pavlovich (June 25 / July 6, 1796, Tsarskoye Selo − 18 February / March 2, 1855. Saint Petersburg) − The third son of Emperor Paul I and Maria Fedorovna, the brother of Emperor Alexander I, father of Emperor Alexander II. Emperor All -Russian, King Polish and Grand Duke Finland.

Reigned from November 19 / December 1, 1825 to February 19 / March 2, 1855 (de facto from December 13/25, 1825).

The 400th anniversary of the Romanov house. SPb, 2013. With. 111.

Nikolai Pavlovich (1796–1855) – Grand Duke, third son of Grand Duke Pavel Petrovich and Grand Duchess Maria Fedorovna, from 1825 – Emperor All -Russian Nicholas I I.

The board of Nicholas I was characterized by trends in the centralization of state power. In 1826, the third branch of its own e was created. And. AT. Chancellery designed to monitor the political well -being of subjects. The role of the patron of the Christian peoples under the rule of Muslims, adopted by the emperor, determined the eastern direction of foreign policy. Russian-Turkish war (1828–1829) contributed to the acquisition of the independence of Greece (1830). The last years of the reign of Nicholas I were overshadowed by military failures in the Crimean War (1853–1856). Military successes at the first stage, the main of which was the Sinop battle (1853), in which the Russian squadron destroyed the Turkish fleet, soon gave way to a painful series of defeats, which ended in the fall of Sevastopol (1855).

Depicted with the star of the Order of St. Andrew the First -Called on his chest (1796, granted at baptism). The portrait belonged to Emperor Alexander III.

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