Note 183 — BOOK IV[176]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Now Emperor and Empress of Russia.—Authors Note (Paris, 1832).
Nicholas I. (1796-1855) married Charlotte, daughter of King Frederick William III. of Prussia. He ascended the Russian throne in 1825, on the death of his eldest brother, the Tsar Alexander I., and by virtue of the renunciation, for himself and his heirs, of the Grand-Duke Constantine.—T.