1825 in Russia

Events from the year 1825 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander I (until December 1), Nicholas I (after December 1)

Events

• Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery
• December 1 (November 19 O.S.) – Nicholas I succeeds his brother Alexander I, as emperor.
• December 26 (December 14 O.S.) – 3000 Imperial Russian Army officers stage the Decembrist Revolt against Nicholas's accession in Saint Petersburg. The rebellion, however, is successfully suppressed by the government.

Births

Deaths

• - Alexander I of Russia (b. 1777)
• - Count Mikhail Miloradovich, Russian general of Serbian origin, prominent during the Napoleonic Wars. (b. 1771)

пятерых повесили, Пушкин лично каждого знал, в том числе и Рылеев, к которому Пушкин собирался накануне восстания

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