In 1832, the Polish constitution was abolished and replaced by one imposed by Czar Nicholas I.
Patarei, built as a sea fortress under Russian tsar Nicholas I in 1840, but served as a prison from 1920 to 2005.
In the 19th century, Turkey was a European power (Nicholas I of Russia dubbed it the sick man of Europe, not of Asia).
But long before Ms Feinstein considers Pushkin's downfall amid the hostile, treacherous and sexually licentious members of Nicholas I's court, she draws a sympathetic, if not always approving, portrait of Pushkin's contradictory and flawed genius.
From then on he endured internal exile in three different locations, followed by a lowly position at court which enabled Nicholas I, the new tsar, to function as Pushkin's personal censor while flirting with his new young wife.
Take Jack himself (Nicholas Hoult, who I loved in the much better film, Warm Bodies) the titular giant slayer.
Forbes editor Matthew Miller and I have been closely following the Nicholas saga for the past six months.
Earlier this year, at the Milken Global Conference, I had a fascinating discussion with Nicholas Carr, a renowned author and thought leader investigating how technology is impacting the way we think.
On Thursday the legendary iPhone hacker Comex, who I identified last year as 20-year old Brown University student Nicholas Allegra, wrote on Twitter that after a year as an intern for the company whose products he once expertly deconstructed, his time at Apple has abruptly ended.
"I wouldn't look for any immediate satisfaction, however, " said spokesman Nicholas Burns.
"Down the track I think you'll see some interesting shifts with respect to RIM, " predicted Nicholas McQuire of technology consultants Yankee Group.
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