Nicholas I
Noun
Meaning
czar of Russia from 1825 to 1855 who led Russia into the Crimean War (1796-1855)
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1866 ) * July 6 Emperor Nicholas I of Russia (d.
About eleven hundred years ago, in 866, the great Pope Nicholas I replied in the following way to a question posed by a people which had just come into contact with Christianity.
"Administration of Justice under Nicholas I of Russia."
After the Rheinische Zeitung published an article strongly criticising the Russian monarchy, Tsar Nicholas I requested it be banned; Prussia's government complied in 1843.
After the November Uprising, Tsar Nicholas I began an intensive program of Russification and the University of Vilnius was closed.
Emperor Nicholas I abolished the punishment by knout in 1845, and replaced it with the pleti, lashes with three thongs which could end in lead balls.