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Modern Czars of Russia and the line of a great road
This piece recounts five modern Russian rulers, three Alexanders and two Nicholases, noting Nicholas I’s 30 year autocracy beginning in 1825. It tells how he dictated the Moscow to St. Petersburg railway route with a line drawn on a map and his simple verdict on purgatory. It also mentions Alexander I’s role in Napoleon’s downfall and a military colony visit with a roasted suckling pig.
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Russia
Alexanders
Nicholases
Nicholas
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Holy Synod
Alexander I
Yalerander I
Napoleon
Commissariat
Volkhowski
Araktheses