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1801-Tsar Paul assassinated

1801-1825-Alexander I Tsar.

1801- Alexander repeals most of the harsh repression under Tsar Paul. Partially due to pressure from Count Pahlen.

5th June 1801- Law commission set up in order to establish a new legal code.

1801- Permanent council established in order to council Tsar in matter of state.

1803- Allows voluntary emancipation of the serfs by masters.

1807-Unofficial committee voluntarily disbanded.

1809- Speransky's reforms were presented to Alexander. Alexander accepts them in principle but never puts them into practise; he was not willing to give up supreme autocratic power.

1809-Invasion of Napoleon.

1810- Council of State introduced - part of Speransky's reform program.

Nov 1810- 1st Military colony under Count Arakcheyev.

March 1812- Speransky dismissed.

1815- The Vienna settlement. Alexander expected to be liberal as he had been in Europe.

1815 onwards- Steadily moved away from liberal ideas towards brutal repression.

1819- Novosiltov's plan for constitution- went further than Speransky, again approved in principle but not put into practise.

1825-55- Nicholas I Tsar.

Dec 1825- Gap of a few weeks between Tsars as Nicholas and Constantine proclaim the other Tsar - results in 'Decembrist revolt'-swiftly put down by Nicholas.

1833- Count Uvarov came up with the formula - 'Orthodoxy' the Orthodox Church, 'Autocracy' the tsarist system of govt. and 'Nationality' sought to defend unique Russian culture against western encroachment.

1826-1836- Nicholas establishes his 5 sections:

1. Reorganisation of administration of the Tsar
2. Codification of Laws-Speransky-40 volumes
3. Originally to route out corruption in public office. Eventually became repressive secret police force.
4. Education and Charities
5. State peasants.

1854-56 - Crimean war. France and Britain supporting Catholics and Turkey respectively and Russia supporting Orthodox priests.

1855-81-Alexander II Tsar.

1881-94 - Alexander III Tsar

1894-1917 - Nicholas II Tsar

Other Notes in this Category

1. Czar Alexander II (1855-1881)
2. Czar Alexander III (1881-1894)
3. Czar Nicholas II (1894-1917)
4. End of the Tsars according to Orland Figes
5. Foreign Policy 1919 to 1934
6. Russia Time-Line
7. The Civil War 1918-1921:
8. The New Economic Policy (NEP)
9. The Period of Lenin’s Rule (1917-24)
10. The Period of Stalin’s Rule (1924-53)
11. The Russian Revolutions of 1917

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