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Representatives began to arrive in Vienna toward the end of September 1814. All of Europe sent its most-important statesmen. Klemens, prince von Metternich, principal minister of Austria, represented his emperor, Francis II. Tsar Alexander I of Russia directed his own diplomacy.
Tsar Alexander I controlled the Russian delegation which was formally led by the foreign minister, Count Karl Robert Nesselrode. The tsar had two main goals, to gain control of Poland and to promote the peaceful coexistence of European nations, with Russia as the pre-eminent land power.
18 Σεπ 2024 · Alexander I, emperor of Russia (1801–25), who alternately fought and befriended Napoleon I during the Napoleonic Wars but who ultimately helped form the coalition that defeated the emperor of the French. He also took part in the Congress of Vienna (1814–15) and drove for the establishment of the Holy Alliance (1815).
Conservatives suspected Alexander of a monstrous intrigue by which the eastern autocrat would ally with the Jacobinism of all Europe, aiming at an all-powerful Russia in place of an all-powerful France. At the Congress of Vienna Alexander's attitude accentuated this distrust.
21 Μαΐ 2018 · Vienna, Congress of (1814–15) European conference that settled international affairs after the Napoleonic Wars. It attempted, as far as possible, to restore the Europe of pre-1789, and thus disappointed the nationalists and liberals.
On the other hand, Russia and its leader, Tsar Alexander I, had both ambitious and conflicting objectives at the Congress of Vienna. Alexander envisioned a Europe guided by Christian principles and hoped to expand Russian influence in Eastern Europe, particularly over Poland.
23 Νοε 2023 · Tsar Alexander I (Russia): He was a conservative monarch who championed absolutism and wanted to combat any threat of revolution or republicanism. During the Napoleonic Wars, he had briefly considered refashioning Europe in liberal and constitutional terms, but he soon resumed his authoritarian tendencies.
