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Czar Nicholas I

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Noun1.Czar Nicholas ICzar Nicholas I - czar of Russia from 1825 to 1855 who led Russia into the Crimean War (1796-1855)
Russia - a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917


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Particularly noteworthy, a 1 1/2 Rubles (10 Zloty) featuring a bust portrait of Czar Nicholas I on the obverse and Tsaritsa Alexandra Fedorovna on the reverse surrounded by the encircled heads of the Grand Dukes and Grand Duchesses brought $109,250 in very competitive bidding.
Czar Nicholas I coined the memorable phrase that in the Ottoman Empire, "we have a sick man on our hands", but when he proposed to kill this sick man off, the British sided with the Ottomans in the Crimean War.
 
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