The czar shaped a "holy alliance" with Austria and Prussia to counter the rise of liberalism and secularism and even rolled again some of the domestic reforms from previously in his reign. One example is, he taken off international academics from Russian colleges and instituted a far more religious curriculum. http://cosmos-a-spacetime-odysse24945.blogerus.com/14106205/empire-of-the-tsars-romanov-russia-show-an-overview