. A thousand years of Russian history. s handicapping him severely. The Emperors mentality, accentuated by his militarytraining, was destined to play an important part in the govern-ing of the nation. The dual attitude of conservatism andreaction which characterised his reign throughout was themixed result of his natural inclination toward order and loveof detail, of his worship of uniformity and discipline as wellas of the desire to carry out the policy of his late brother,as expressed in the Holy Alliance ; also his innate oppositionto all liberal tendencies, and fear lest those which had al
. A thousand years of Russian history. s handicapping him severely. The Emperors mentality, accentuated by his militarytraining, was destined to play an important part in the govern-ing of the nation. The dual attitude of conservatism andreaction which characterised his reign throughout was themixed result of his natural inclination toward order and loveof detail, of his worship of uniformity and discipline as wellas of the desire to carry out the policy of his late brother,as expressed in the Holy Alliance ; also his innate oppositionto all liberal tendencies, and fear lest those which had alreadytaken root in the nation might produce undesirable fruit. The actions of Nicholas were therefore what might beexpected, but his people suffered terribly under his iron rule ;and the very stiffness and tightness of the uniform he worewere symbolical of his nature and ideals, and very soon afterhis accession to the throne he put all the officials of hisEmpire into uniform. This rigorous severity made itself particularly felt in the. Domino >0(1Rv5D5Kll :TZAR ^) 0\ Per NtKii ,\; D\\T Ni.»*Xi>RODI IN Tt RRCIONIS ; tfrrar^vKabardin. d\cvm; ft mvlta etMi CalVllumcum tribu Iub fliirrnri Imporio, p •rr M-igiii Ducis Bi>ri(T liiu cftdimt-nfu fui oitrrnjr. Ji Plan of the Kremlin in the Reign of Boris Gcdounov, 1600. THE RULE OF NICHOLAS I. 265 spiritual and intellectual life of the nation. Nicholas hadnot shared the pietistic sympathies of his elder brother, norhad he the breadth and toleration, although, personally, hewas an earnest believer who read his Bible daily ; but hehated bigotry and hypocrisy, and consequently the servicesof Araktcheyev and Magnitzi were speedily dispensed upheld, however the intolerant attitude of the Metro-politan Photi with regard to the Russian Bible Society, whichhe closed in 1827 ; but,
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