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• 1801-Tsar Paul assassinated
• 1801-1825-Alexander I Tsar.
• 1801- Alexander repeals most of the harsh repression under Tsar Paul. Partially due to pressure from Count Pahlen.
• 5th June 1801- Law commission set up in order to establish a new legal code.
• 1801- Permanent council established in order to council Tsar in matter of state.
• 1803- Allows voluntary emancipation of the serfs by masters.
• 1807-Unofficial committee voluntarily disbanded.
• 1809- Speransky's reforms were presented to Alexander. Alexander accepts them in principle but never puts them into practise; he was not willing to give up supreme autocratic power.
• 1809-Invasion of Napoleon.
• 1810- Council of State introduced - part of Speransky's reform program.
• Nov 1810- 1st Military colony under Count Arakcheyev.
• March 1812- Speransky dismissed.
• 1815- The Vienna settlement. Alexander expected to be liberal as he had been in Europe.
• 1815 onwards- Steadily moved away from liberal ideas towards brutal repression.
• 1819- Novosiltov's plan for constitution- went further than Speransky, again approved in principle but not put into practise.
• 1825-55- Nicholas I Tsar.
• Dec 1825- Gap of a few weeks between Tsars as Nicholas and Constantine proclaim the other Tsar - results in 'Decembrist revolt'-swiftly put down by Nicholas.
• 1833- Count Uvarov came up with the formula - 'Orthodoxy' the Orthodox Church, 'Autocracy' the tsarist system of govt. and 'Nationality' sought to defend unique Russian culture against western encroachment.
• 1826-1836- Nicholas establishes his 5 sections:

1. Reorganisation of administration of the Tsar
2. Codification of Laws-Speransky-40 volumes
3. Originally to route out corruption in public office. Eventually became repressive secret police force.
4. Education and Charities
5. State peasants.

• 1854-56 - Crimean war. France and Britain supporting Catholics and Turkey respectively and Russia supporting Orthodox priests.
• 1855-81-Alexander II Tsar.
• 1881-94 - Alexander III Tsar
• 1894-1917 - Nicholas II Tsar

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