A Major Turn to the Right, Nicholas I Takes Control

Russian Rulers History Podcast

Mark Schauss

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🗓️ 11 July 2011

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Alexander I dies and his brother Nicholas takes control but not without a bit of controversy. If you'd like to support the podcast with a small monthly donation, click this link - https://www.buzzsprout.com/385372/support

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0:00.0	I'm going to go. He's
0:15.0	a-a-ra-s-s-s-s-a-s-s-a-s-a-s- Welcome to the Russian rulers podcast. Episode 56. A major turn to the right. Nicholas the first takes control.
0:37.0	Last week we recounted Sir Alexander the first's reactionary second half of his reign and his mysterious death.
0:47.6	Now we move on to his younger brother Nicholas the first's reign with only one major problem. Nicholas is unaware that he is to succeed his
0:55.9	brother. Now according to the law passed by his father Paul the first in 1797
1:01.6	Constantine and not Nicholas was the heir apparent when news came of Alexander's supposed
1:08.0	death.
1:09.0	It is at this point that a group of officers, led by five men, decided now is the time to overthrow
1:16.4	the Romanovs and fight for a new constitutional government.
1:21.8	At first, Nicholas hesitated taking the throne, waiting instead for Constantine to formally refuse the title.
1:28.0	When no such letter came from his brother, who was in Poland, Nicholas still proclaimed allegiance to Constantine.
1:36.0	When nothing came of that, on December 13, 1825, he proclaimed himself Tsar, which led many to believe that he was attempting to usurp the throne.
1:47.0	The conspirators saw this as their moment to strike.
1:51.0	They would depose Nicholas, named Constantine Emperor, and force him to accept a new
1:56.1	Constitution. Some 3,000 troops in St. Petersburg rose up in arms, killed the governor, General Mikhail Milodrovich, but were quickly met by 9,000 loyalist
2:08.8	troops and captured.
2:11.7	Nicholas tried to stop the uprising with a plea to give up without shedding blood, but in the end four cannons were fired into the crowd of men after a three hour standoff with approximately 60 men dying.
2:25.0	It was a total failure with the seeds of revolution being planted and rising up again,
2:30.0	but instead of this being started by peasants, now the nobility were involved.
2:37.0	Five ringleaders were identified.
2:39.0	And the first one will have a name that strikes memories of the past. It was Nikolai Bestreshev Rumen.
2:48.3	Now also Peter Kachshovsky, Sergei Murriev ao, Pavil pestle, and Kondrati Rylev, all of whom were captured
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