Nicholas I: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
The leading full account of Nicholas I and his reign, especially valuable on foreign relations and with numerous documentary appendixes, is Theodor Schiemann, Geschichte Russlands unter Kaiser Nikolaus I, 4 vol. (1904–19, reprinted 1969). W. Bruce Lincoln, Nicholas I, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias (1978, reprinted 1989), is a valuable scholarly biography with bibliography. A readable popular study is Constantin de Grunwald, Tsar Nicholas I (1954; originally published in French, 1946). Nicholas Valentine Riasanovsky, Nicholas I and Official Nationality in Russia, 1825–1855 (1959, reissued 1969); and A.E. Presniakov, Emperor Nicholas I of Russia: The Apogee of Autocracy, 1825–1865 (1974; originally published in Russian, 1925), with an extended introduction by Riasanovsky, are also useful.
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Anniversary information added. | Jul 02, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Heritage History - An Eventful Period. | Jun 09, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Feb 26, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Presidential Library - Birth of Emperor Nicholas I. | Aug 23, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: History Today - Death of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. | Apr 15, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Alexander Palace Time Machine - Biography of Nicholas I. | Dec 13, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Mar 28, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Lumen Learning - History of Western Civilization II - The Wars of Nicholas I. | May 18, 2023 | ||
| Corrected spelling of Astolphe, Marquis de Custine. | Apr 02, 2019 | ||
| Media added. | May 30, 2018 | ||
| Corrected cross-reference. | Apr 26, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: Internet Encyclopedia of Ukraine - Biography of Nicholas I. | Jan 25, 2017 | ||
| Changed attribution of the quotation at the beginning of the Personality section. | May 20, 2016 | ||
| Add new Web site: RT Russiapedia - Biography of Nicholas I. | Apr 20, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Biography of Nicholas I. | Apr 20, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Jewish Virtual Library - Biography of Nicholas. | Sep 08, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Nicholas I. | Oct 12, 2010 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |