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Holy Alliance

Alexander I, Emperor Francis I of Austria and King Frederick William III of Prussia signed in Paris an act establishing a “fraternal and Christian union” of monarchs, intended to uphold the order established by the Congress of Vienna.

Date
14 (26) September 1815exact dateJulian calendar (Old Style); the Gregorian date (New Style) is in brackets
Place
Paristoday: Paris, France · Western and Central Europe
Participants
Russian Empire, Austrian Empire, Kingdom of Prussia, Alexander I, Francis II (Francis I of Austria), Frederick William III
Threads
Russia at the turn of the 19th century

The alliance was Alexander I’s initiative. The act imposed no specific obligations on those who signed it, but almost all the monarchs of continental Europe later joined it, except the Pope and the Ottoman sultan.

In the following years the alliance became the basis for the great powers’ intervention in the internal affairs of other states in order to suppress revolutionary movements.

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Sources

  1. Wikipedia (English): Holy Alliance
  2. Wikipedia (Russian): Священный союз
  3. Schroeder P. W. The Transformation of European Politics, 1763–1848. — Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.
  4. Wikidata: Q154640