Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A 1848, lokacin da jerin juyin juya hali suka girgiza Turai, Nicholas ya kasance a gaban masu adawa. A shekara ta 1849, ya taimaka wa Habsburgs wajen murkushe juyin juya hali a Hungary
, kuma ya kuma bukaci Prussia kada ta dauki tsarin mulki mai sassaucin ra'ayi.