1825 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander I, Nicholas I

  Events

• Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery
• December 1 - Nicholas I of Russia succeeds his brother Alexander I.
• December 26 - 3000 Imperial Russian Army officers stage the Decembrist Revolt against Nicholas's accession in Saint Petersburg. The rebellion, however, is successfully suppressed by the government.

  Births

Deaths

• - Alexander I of Russia
• - Count Mikhail Miloradovich, Russian general of Serbian origin, prominent during the Napoleonic Wars.