He was nicknamed “Palkin” and has been cursed for more than a century and a half. He is hated by all “liberals” and Russophobes, who glorified him as an “enemy of progress” and a “cruel despot.” Nicholas I is the most underrated and slandered emperor in Russian history. His reign coincided with the era of hegemony of the colonial predator - Britain. The only large country that retained its independence was Nikolaev Russia. She did not beg for money from foreign creditors, turning her own capital to the development of the Russian economy, and not to the enrichment of Western bigwigs. A Cossack with a saber and a man with an ax mastered the “frontier” on the Amur and in the foothills of the Tien Shan. Russian goods conquered eastern markets. The oppressed peoples of the Balkans and Asia Minor saw the Russian Tsar as a savior and protector. This book is the first to pay tribute to the slandered emperor, irrefutably proving that his reign was one of the greatest and most creative eras in Russian history.