# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nicholas-i-of-russia
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:59:48.534Z

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name: "Nicholas I of Russia"
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description: "Autocracy in human form: the iron-willed emperor who crushed revolts from Warsaw to the Caucasus, expanded Russia to 20 million square kilometers, then led it into the Crimean disaster that exposed the rot beneath the polish."
tagline: "The 11th Emperor of Russia (1825–1855)"
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birthDate: "1796-06-25"
deathDate: "1855-02-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Third son of Paul I, Nicholas took the throne in 1825 when the Decembrist revolt tried and failed to stop him. Trained as a military engineer, he saw himself as a soldier obsessed with spit and polish, micromanaging every detail with a nervous, relentless energy. He seized modern Armenia and Azerbaijan from Qajar Iran, helped forge an independent Greece, crushed Poland's November Uprising in 1831, and sent troops to save Austria during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. Then came the Crimean War in 1853, where his meddling strangled his own generals and the strategy collapsed. He died in 1855 with an empire spanning continents and a legacy historians call "a catastrophic failure in both domestic and foreign policy," leaving a desperate need for the reforms he'd spent twenty-nine years refusing.