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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • Czar of Russia (1825–1855) who suppressed the Decembrist Revolt (1825) and led Russia into the Crimean War (1853–1856).

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  • noun czar of Russia from 1825 to 1855 who led Russia into the Crimean War (1796-1855)

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Examples

  • The dreamers hated him with a hatred they never extendedto his more reactionary predecessors, Alexander I and Nicholas I, or to his more reactionary successors, Alexander III andNicholas II.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • The Tsar, Kropotkin concluded, “retained too much of the despotic character of his father,” Nicholas I, and this “pierced now and then throughhis easily good-natured manners.”

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • The dreamers hated him with a hatred they never extendedto his more reactionary predecessors, Alexander I and Nicholas I, or to his more reactionary successors, Alexander III andNicholas II.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • The dreamers hated him with a hatred they never extendedto his more reactionary predecessors, Alexander I and Nicholas I, or to his more reactionary successors, Alexander III andNicholas II.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • The Tsar, Kropotkin concluded, “retained too much of the despotic character of his father,” Nicholas I, and this “pierced now and then throughhis easily good-natured manners.”

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • The dreamers hated him with a hatred they never extendedto his more reactionary predecessors, Alexander I and Nicholas I, or to his more reactionary successors, Alexander III andNicholas II.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • The Tsar, Kropotkin concluded, “retained too much of the despotic character of his father,” Nicholas I, and this “pierced now and then throughhis easily good-natured manners.”

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • The dreamers hated him with a hatred they never extendedto his more reactionary predecessors, Alexander I and Nicholas I, or to his more reactionary successors, Alexander III andNicholas II.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • The Tsar, Kropotkin concluded, “retained too much of the despotic character of his father,” Nicholas I, and this “pierced now and then throughhis easily good-natured manners.”

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • The Tsar, Kropotkin concluded, “retained too much of the despotic character of his father,” Nicholas I, and this “pierced now and then throughhis easily good-natured manners.”

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

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