"The Duke and the Tsar" Topic

"I'll bet allot of you don't know about the Duke of Wellington's mission to St Petersburg in 1826. Well I wasn't too familiar with it either, so I looked into it and found a great story, so after having my Adventure I had to let you all know about it, this is the story of the Duke and the Tsar, or more accurately of the St Petersburg Protocol, mysterious isn't it?

On the 1st of December 1825 one of the principle architects of Napoleon's downfall died. Tsar Alexander I breathed his last at the palace at Tanganrog without an heir creating a constitutional crisis that reached its peak and ended on the same day no less than 26 days later when the Decembrists marched on Senate Square in St Petersburg opposing the ascension of Tsar Nicholas I. When the guns fell silent another hero of the war against Napoleon was mortally wounded, General Mikhail Miloradovich, died on the 27th of December, shot in the back by a man who spoke his own language and wore his own uniform.

Across the seas in Britain, all that was known for sure was that Nicholas I had emerged as Tsar, and diplomatic protocol demanded an embassy be sent to congratulate him on his succession, and offer condolences for the late Alexander. In the opinion of George Canning, King George IV new foreign secretary there was only one man for the job. The man who at the Congress of Vienna Tsar Alexander had touched on the shoulder and said "Once again it is up to you to save Europe", Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington.

From here.
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Part 2 here.
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Hope you enjoy!.

Amicalement
Armand