1825 in Russia

Events from the year 1825 in Russia

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Alexander I (until December 1), Nicholas I (after December 1)

Events

 * Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery
 * December 1 (November 19 O.S.) – Nicholas I succeeds his brother Alexander I, as emperor.
 * December 26 (December 14 O.S.) – 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.

Deaths

 * 1 December 1825 - Alexander I of Russia (b. 1777)
 * December 27 1825 - Count Mikhail Miloradovich, Russian general of Serbian origin, prominent during the Napoleonic Wars. (b. 1771)