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Alexander I 1777 - 1825
Image above:
From a portrait of Emperor
Alexander I, after 1815, unknown artist.
State Hermitage Museum St Petersburg.
Alexander I was Russia's Emperor from 1801 - 1825.
He was one of the
main reasons why
Napoleon I Bonaparte
was eventually brought down on his knees.
One of Alexander's best friends,
and comrade-in-schemes against the French, was
Gustaf
Mauritz Armfelt.
Alexander's famous grandmother was
Catherine II the Great.
Alexander's father was
Czar Paul I.
One of Alexander's first actions as czar was
to dissolve the Armed Neutrality of the North. This was an
agreement between Denmark, Sweden, and Russia, which had already
caused the Danes some headaches in form of the
Battle of Copenhagen because the English didn't like the
agreement either.
Upon Alexander's death, his brother
Nicholas became Russia's next czar.
See also
Governments
of Russia
MEETING OF NAPOLEON
AND ALEXANDER I ON NIEMEN, 1807
Unknown artist. State Hermitage
Museum St. Petersburg
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