This man was infuriated when his uncle, William the Duke of Oldenburg, had his territory annexed, and hired the Scotsman Michael Barclay de Tolly for his army.
This man was infuriated when his uncle, William the Duke of Oldenburg, had his territory annexed, and hired the Scotsman Michael Barclay de Tolly for his army. During his rule, he lost one battle when he took the abandoned Pratzen Heights and despite sending in his reserves, and through the treaty of Friedrikshamm his country formally annexed Finland.  He was the first ruler to hire the reform-minded advisor Mikhail Speransky, who established the State Council to advise him, and he was the second ruler to hire artillery general Aleksey Arakcheyev. He withdrew his nation's ships from a blockade called Continental System, breaking with an agreement signed after his army at Friedland, for which he boarded a barge to sign the treaty of Tilsit. For 10 points, name this successor of Paul I, a tsar whose army fought at Borodino against Napoleon.
This man was infuriated when his uncle, William the Duke of Oldenburg, had his territory annexed, and hired the Scotsman Michael Barclay de Tolly for his army.
Alexander I Romanov 