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Nicholas' crushing of the Polish Rebellion in 1830 to 1831 made clear to the world that he would intervene wherever monarchy was threatened.
尼古拉在1830年到1831年對波蘭叛亂的鎮壓表明他可以插手任何受到威脅的君主國的事物
When a wave of revolutions swept over Europe in 1848, also the year that Marx's Communist Manifesto appeared,
當1848年革命波及整個歐洲的時候，這一年馬克思的共產黨宣言也誕生了
Nicholas offered financial and military aid to the threatened kings.
尼古拉向受到威脅的君主提供了財政和軍事援助
In 1849, he sent Russian troops to keep Hungary from leaving the Austrian Empire.
1849年，他派軍防止匈牙利脫離奧匈帝國
He also pleaded with King Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia to avoid changes which might lead to constitutional monarchy.
他也請求普魯士國王弗里德里希·威廉避免任何可能將國家變為君主立憲制的變化
Yet the Gendarme of Europe was not as mighty as everyone had assumed.
但是歐洲憲兵并不像大家認為的那樣強大
Maintaining a Pax Russica throughout Europe was expensive, but the Russian economy was hopelessly backwards.
在歐洲維持這種和平的代價是昂貴的，而俄國的經濟又是那么的落后
Nicholas' vision of official nationality canceled out all dangerous initiatives, even the building of railroads.
尼古拉的合法民族主義取消了一切可能導致危險的動機，包括修建鐵路
The first railroad of any length in Russia was the Moscow-St. Petersburg line completed in 1851.
俄羅斯第一條有相當長度的鐵路是1851年竣工的——莫斯科到圣彼得堡鐵路
Neither Nicholas nor the nobility did anything to help the peasant serfs who continued to make up most of the tax base and most of the army.
無論是尼古拉，還是貴族都沒有采取任何措施幫助一直負擔著大部分稅收和兵役的農民
Great Britain, France, and the other European powers had no way, however, of seeing Russia's inherent weakness.
英國，法國，還有其他的歐洲列強都無法看到俄國內在的弱點
