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Nicholas I of Russia

1796 - 1855

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Nicholas I (6 July [O.S. 25 June] 1796 – 2 March [O.S. 18 February] 1855) was Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland. He was the third son of Paul I and younger brother of his predecessor, Alexander I. Nicholas's thirty-year reign began with the failed Decembrist revolt. He is mainly remembered as a reactionary whose controversial reign was marked by geographical expansion, centralisation of administrative policies, and repression of dissent both in Russia and among its neighbors. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicholas I of Russia has received more than 5,955,606 page views. His biography is available in 89 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 85 in 2019). Nicholas I of Russia is the 219th most popular politician (down from 178th in 2019), the 29th most popular biography from Russia (down from 25th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Politician.

Nicholas I was the emperor of Russia from 1825-1855. He is most famous for his reactionary policies and his use of censorship.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Nicholas I of Russia ranks 219 out of 19,576. Before him are Xi Jinping, Kublai Khan, Jacques Chirac, Tomyris, Klemens von Metternich, and Louis IX of France. After him are Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, Harun al-Rashid, Sonia Gandhi, Leopold II of Belgium, Joseph Goebbels, and António de Oliveira Salazar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1796, Nicholas I of Russia ranks 1. After him are Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, Adolphe Quetelet, Michael Thonet, Princess Charlotte of Wales, Franz Berwald, Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg, Jakob Steiner, Peter Fendi, Philipp Franz von Siebold, and Carl Loewe. Among people deceased in 1855, Nicholas I of Russia ranks 3. Before him are Carl Friedrich Gauss, and Søren Kierkegaard. After him are Charlotte Brontë, Adam Mickiewicz, Gérard de Nerval, Infante Carlos, Count of Molina, Adelaide of Austria, Pavel Nakhimov, Jacques-Charles Dupont de l'Eure, François Rude, and Maria Theresa of Austria.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nicholas I of Russia ranks 29 out of 3,761. Before him are Lev Yashin (1929), Maxim Gorky (1868), Isaac Asimov (1920), Mikhail Bakunin (1814), Igor Stravinsky (1882), and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918). After him are Yuri Andropov (1914), Alexander III of Russia (1845), Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873), Yul Brynner (1920), Dmitri Shostakovich (1906), and Valentina Tereshkova (1937).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Nicholas I of Russia ranks 11. Before him are Nikita Khrushchev (1894), Nicholas II of Russia (1868), Ivan the Terrible (1530), Boris Yeltsin (1931), Kim Jong-il (1941), and Alexander I of Russia (1777). After him are Yuri Andropov (1914), Alexander III of Russia (1845), Georgy Zhukov (1896), Alexander II of Russia (1818), Konstantin Chernenko (1911), and Turhan Hatice Sultan (1627).

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