Alexander I of Russia ( – ), served as Emperor

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 of Russia from 23 March 1801 to 1 December 1825 and the first Russian King of Poland from 1815 to 1825. He was also the first Russian Grand Duke of Finland and Lithuania.

He was born in Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

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 to Grand Duke

Grand Duke

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 Paul Petrovich, later Emperor Paul I

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, and Maria Feodorovna, daughter of the Duke of Württemberg

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. Alexander was the eldest of four brothers. He succeeded to the throne after his father was murdered, and ruled Russia during the chaotic period of the Napoleonic Wars

Napoleonic Wars

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