(1825 – 1855)
Emperor Nicholas I Pavlovich, son of Emperor Pavel, after the death of Alexander I, who did not leave the children, and due to the abdication of the elder brother Konstantin Pavlovich, ascended the throne.
His accession to the throne was accompanied by a military insurgency of the Decembrists, on December 14, 1825.
The main events of the reign.
1833 – the publication of a complete collection of laws of the Russian Empire, which included all decrees until the death of Alexander I, beginning with the provisions of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich.
In 1827, issued a decree on pensions for public service.
In 1837, the Ministry of State Property for the management of public lands was founded.
The decree prohibiting the sale of serfs apart from families.
From 1826 to 1828, the war with Persia ended with the Turkmanchai world, in which Russia acquired the Khanate of Erivan and Nakhchivan.
From 1828 to 1829, the Turkish War, as a result of the patronage rendered by Nicholas I to the Greeks.
In 1827, at Navarin, the Turkish-Egyptian fleet was burnt.
In 1828, the Russian army under the command of Wittgenstein took possession of Varna.
In 1829 Count Dibich crossed the Balkans and occupied Andriapolis. In Asia, Pashkevich took Akhaltsikhe, Kars and Erzurum. In the same year, the peace was concluded in Andriapol, according to which Russia received the eastern shore of the Black Sea, free navigation on the Danube and the Dardanelles was open to Russian ships, the independence of the Greek kingdom was recognized, and Moldova, Wallachia and Serbia became under the auspices of Russia.
From 1830 to 1831 – the suppression of the Polish insurrection.
In 1839 – the joining of the tubs to the Orthodox Church.
From 1853 to 1855 – the Crimean campaign as a result of Turkey’s refusal to secure the rights of its subjects Christians. In this war, admirals Kornilov, Nakhimov and engineer Totleben, who defended Sevastopol bravely, stayed for 11 months.
During the Crimean campaign, on February 18, 1855, Nicholas I died. Lying on his deathbed the emperor said to his heir: “Serve Russia! I wanted to leave you a peaceful, settled and happy kingdom … Providence judged otherwise.”
Emperor Alexander II Nikolaevich the Liberator (1855 – 1881)