While Nicholas the First was stamping out Decemberists, chipping away at the Ottoman Empire, and throwing his weight around Europe, matters in his own country were coming to a boil.

尼古拉一世在镇压十二月党人，蚕食奥斯曼帝国的土地，称霸欧洲的时候，国内的事情却乱成了一团糟。