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Nicholas I: Iron Tsar and the Birth of Russian Conservatism
After the Decembrist Revolt, Nicholas I ascended the throne with one goal: to freeze Russia in time. He created the Third Section, the secret police that censored Pushkin and Tchaikovsky, enforced Orthodoxy-Autocracy-Nationality, and built a police state that stifled dissent. Yet his reign also saw the codification of Russian law under Speransky, the construction of the first Russian railway, and the flowering of a uniquely Russian culture—even as it was muzzled. This episode explores the paradox of Nicholas I: the Iron Tsar who crushed revolt, haunted Pushkin, and inadvertently sowed the…
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