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17359 - TSAR (CZAR) ALEXANDER I
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| His parents were Paul, son of Catherine
the Great and Maria Fyodorovna, the former Princess of Wurttemburg.
Born in the year 1777 and he was taken to be raised by his Grandmother
Catherine the Great. The divisions in the family troubled his childhood.
Both sides tried to use him for their own purposes and he was torn
emotionally between his grandmother and his father, the Heir to the
throne. This taught Alexander, very early on, how to manipulate those
who loved him and he came a natural politician, changing his views
and personality depending on who he was with at the time.
Catherine the Great died on November 6, 1796 and her son and Alexander's father Paul assumed the throne. Paul quickly establishment a number of new laws to undercut those portions of his mother's reign could not accept. Paul's actions went much too far, he infuriated the country and especially the nobility. Patrician plots were devise to end Paul's life. With the implied approval of Alexander, the Paul was murdered at the Mikhailovski Castle in St. Petersburg on March 11, 1801. Alexander was immediately crowned Tsar to succeed his father. His mother, Maria, refused to associate to her son for a long while, she never entirely forgave him for his alleged involvement in his father's murder. In his first years on the Russian throne, Alexander I. Czar of Russia coincided almost exactly with that of Napoleon. The two men fought several times. It was Alexander who led the Allies to victory in 1814. He was a major contributor in the peace treaty and obtaining the spoil of war that he wanted Poland. In the end the Tsar was a troubled and broken man and seemed tired of the power. He died suddenly while traveling, at Taganrog, on 19 November 1825. Legend has it that he assumed the identity of a hermit or a monk named Kuzmich. The Soviet Government fanned the flames of these rumors when it announced his coffin had been opened in the 1920's and was found to be empty. |
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