Alexander I, nicknamed the Blessed, was Emperor of Russia from 1801 until his death in 1825, and also the first King of Congress Poland and Grand Duke of Finland. He ruled during the Napoleonic Wars and shifted Russia's position toward France four times between 1804 and 1812, joining the Third Coalition, suffering defeats at Austerlitz and Friedland, allying with Napoleon at Tilsit, and then breaking with him. His greatest triumph came in 1812 when Napoleon's invasion of Russia ended in catastrophe, and he later formed the Holy Alliance. He took Finland from Sweden in 1809. His reign also included a war with Persia from 1804 to 1813 that ended with the Treaty of Gulistan. He died of typhus in December 1825 and was succeeded by his brother Nicholas I.
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In October 1813, the Treaty of Gulistan, negotiated with British mediation and signed at Gulistan, made the Persian Shah Fath Ali Shah cede all Persian territories in the North Caucasus and most of its territories in the South Caucasus to Russia.
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