# Portrait of Emperor Nicholas I [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [KRÜGER, Franz]() - Date: 1801-1850 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 94 x 72 cm ## Commentary Portrait of Emperor Nicholas I 1852 Oil on canvas, 94 x 72 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg Nicholas I \(1796-1855\), Russian emperor \(1825–55\), is often considered the personification of classic autocracy; for his reactionary policies, he has been called the emperor who froze Russia for 30 years. He was the founder of the Imperial Hermitage as a public museum. ## Related artworks - [Equestrian Portrait of Alexander I]() - [Equestrian Portrait of Frederick William III]() - [Hermann Fürst von Pückler-Muskau in Prussian Uniform]() - [Parade at the Opernplatz]() - [Portrait of Alexander Arkadyevich Suvorov]() - [Portrait of Prince Pyotr Volkonsky]() - [Prince Augustus of Prussia]() - [Two Cuirassiers from the Regiment of Czar Nicholas I]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()