An emperor Nikolay I (1796-1825) was quite not callous and of little education солдафоном, what he long time was presented, he had been by a monarch quite a bit doing for prosperity of Russia. At him a breach was accomplished in a legislation, building of railways is begun, terms are prepared for abolition of serf of right. However completion of his reign was on unsuccessful Crimean war, and it influenced rock character on the estimation of him merits and even on the ideas of contemporaries about that, how he died, generating rumors about his suicide.