The new tsar, Alexander I (r. 1801-25),…
1804 CE to 1815 CE
The new tsar, Alexander I (r. 1801-25), comes to the throne as the result of his father's murder, in which he is implicated.
Groomed for the throne by Catherine II and raised in the spirit of enlightenment, Alexander also has an inclination toward romanticism and religious mysticism, particularly in the latter period of his reign.
Alexander tinkers with changes in the central government, and he replaces the colleges that Peter the Great had set up with ministries, but without a coordinating prime minister.
The brilliant statesman Mikhail Speranskiy, who is the tsar's chief adviser early in his reign, proposes an extensive constitutional reform of the government, but Alexander dismisses him in 1812 and loses interest in reform.
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