Post by Czar Nikolai on Aug 16, 2015 15:45:40 GMT
Czar Nikolai Pavlovich Romanov His Imperial Majesty The Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland.
- Czar Nikolai is the epitome of aristocratic pride and aloofness. He feels ill at ease behind a desk or conducting government, his natural home is on his horse reviewing regiments of soldiers. He is considered cold and ruthless, characteristics necessary when ruling an Empire that spans from Poland to Japan. He is a slavophile and quite conservative, but he is unusually fervent in his hatred of serfdom, less for moral reasons, more for reasons of efficiency and limiting the nobility. Nikolai is a keen military reformer and wishes to see Russia empowered through modernization.
Minister for War - Field Marshall Ivan Fyodorovich Paskevich
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- Paskevich is one of Russias most experienced and accomplished Military men, having fought against Napoleon, the Hungarians and the Persians with great degrees of success. He is personally very loyal to the Czar and is widely respected within the nobility and the military.
Education - Sergey Uvarov
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- President of the Russian Academy of Sciences and known across Europe for his works on Ancient Greek archaeology and literature, Uvarov enjoys close friendships with some of Europe's most notable minds. He is responsible for the Orthodoxy, Autocracy and Nationality policy which guides his department and the nations education.
Foreign - Count Karl Robert Nesselrode
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- Nesselrode is of German descent and was born on a Russian Frigate of all places, he was educated in the Berlin Gymnasium but served in both the Russian Navy and Army. He has been a minister of foreign affairs since 1814 when he led the Russian delegation to the conference of Vienna and has been in his position as Russia's Foreign Minister since 1816.
Trade and Infrastructure - Count Pavel Dmitrievich Kiselyov
- Kiselyov is a keen reformer on matters of trade and serfdom, an area in which the Czar agrees, but due to political necessity must restrain his minister. Kiselyov is respected for his military service and his governance of the Danubian Principalities.
Treasury - Yegor Kankrin
Policing - Count Alexander Benckendorff
- Beckendorf is a former cavalry commander and founder of the Third Section of the Imperial Chancellery, now the Ministry for Policing. He attempted to warn the previous Czar of the Decembrist revolt and chaired the committee of investigation after said revolt. He is vehemently loyal to the Czar and is an extremely capable administrator and commander of the secret police, despite a tendency to forget his own name.
Justice - Mikhail Mikhailovich Speransky
- In 1826, Speransky was appointed by Nicholas I to head the Second Section of the Imperial Chancellery, a committee formed to codify Russian law. Under his leadership, the committee produced a publication of the complete collection of laws of the Russian Empire, containing 35,993 enactments. This codification called the 'Full Collection of Laws' (Polnoye Sobraniye Zakonov) was presented to Nicholas I and formed the basis for the 'Collection of Laws of the Russian Empire' (Svod Zakonov Rossiskoy Imperii), the positive law valid for the Russian Empire. Speransky is now senior minister of the department of Justice, maintaining the same role he did as head of the Second Section, but with greater resources and more clearly defined parameters.