Nicholas I. The last knight of Europe. Eliseeva O.I.

Nicholas I is associated with most readers with suppression of the rebellion on Senate Square and the subsequent court over the Decembrists. The dominance of the old tradition in the consciousness of society stained the figure of the emperor exclusively in dark tones. Meanwhile, the thirty -year era of Nicholas I seems to today one of the most calm periods in the history of Russia, the true Russian Empire - the time of absolute power of the Russian Empire, which, after victories in the Napoleonic wars, continued to establish itself in the international arena in the new status of superpower. It was in the era of "Nikolaev despotism" that created their best works by A.S. Pushkin, M.Yu. Lermontov, N.V. Gogol. It was during these years that progressive laws came out that qualitatively improved the position of the peasants, which stimulated the increase in the population of Russia. Unsiapedian researchers have long come to the conclusion that they were a truly great reign, but dared to talk about it only now.

The book proposed is dedicated to the youth of Nicholas I and begins a detailed story about its many years of rule. The “last knight of Europe” by the Russian king was called the German Chancellor O. von Bismarck. This characteristic is as suitable for describing the very first steps of the young sovereign and explains a lot in the fatal events on December 14, 1825.

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