who was the first russian president?
Dmitry Medvedev
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 Alexander II , Tsar of Russia 

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 Shortly after taking office , Yanayev joined a group of more conservative Communist politicians who hoped to persuade Gorbachev to declare a state of emergency , led by KGB chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov . 

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 After the Congress of Vienna , a small Kingdom of Poland , known as Congress Poland , was recreated , with its king being the Tsar of Russia , Alexander I. Alexander I , an enlightened autocrat , decided to use Congress Poland as an experiment to see if Russian autocratic rule could be mixed with an elective legislative system , and rule Poland as a constitutional monarchy . At that time many hoped that this experiment would be a success and pave way to a liberalization in Russia ; in the end it proved to be a failure . 

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 In the meantime , the Commonwealth forces after a long siege stormed and took Smolensk in 1611 . At the Kremlin the situation of the Poles had been worsening despite occasional reinforcements , and the massive national and religious uprising was spreading all over Russia . Prince Dmitry Pozharsky and Kuzma Minin effectively led the Russians , a new rescue operation attempted by Hetman Chodkiewicz had failed and a capitulation of the Polish and Lithuanian forces at the Kremlin terminated in 1612 their involvement there . Mikhail Romanov , son of the imprisoned in Poland ( since his rejection of Sigismund III 's demand for the Russian throne ) Patriarch Filaret , became the new tsar in 1613 . 

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 Tsar Alexander left the administration to his younger brother , Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich of Russia , to serve as viceroy . Constantine , with the help of Nikolay Nikolayevich Novosiltsev , " Russified " Congress Poland and oversaw secret police investigations of student groups in contravention of the Constitution . Alexander visited the Sejm in 1820 and received such condemnation from the deputies ( members of the Sejm 's lower house ) that he reversed his stance of the Sejm as a liberalization experiment although he was still bound by the Congress of Vienna not to liquidate Russia 's partition of Poland entirely . By 1825 , Alexander I was sufficiently dissatisfied with the Sejm that he decided to bar some of the most vocal opposition deputies from it . 
