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He ruled Russia during the chaotic period of the Napoleonic Wars. As prince and during the early years of his reign, he often used liberal rhetoric, but continued Russia's absolutist policies in practice. In the first years of his reign, he initiated some minor social reforms and in —04 major liberal educational reforms, such as building more universities.
Alexander appointed Mikhail Speransky , the son of a village priest, as one of his closest advisors. The over-centralized Collegium ministries were abolished and replaced by the Council of Ministers, State Council , and Supreme Court to improve the legal system.
Plans were made but never consummated, to set up a parliament and sign a constitution. In contrast to his westernizing predecessors such as Peter the Great , Alexander was a Russian nationalist and Slavophile who wanted Russia to develop on the basis of Russian culture rather than European. In foreign policy, he changed Russia's position towards France four times between and , shifting among neutrality, opposition, and alliance.
In he joined Britain in the War of the Third Coalition against Napoleon , but after suffering massive defeats at the battles of Austerlitz and Friedland , he switched sides and formed an alliance with Napoleon in the Treaty of Tilsit and joined Napoleon's Continental System. He fought a small-scale naval war against Britain between and as well as a short war against Sweden —09 after Sweden's refusal to join the Continental System.