Popular with the aristocracy and the royals in the 18th and 19th centuries, the lavish festivity will be held for tourists.
A powerful backlash has hit new laws due to be speeded through parliament on 'modernising' the country's science.
Officially, Alexander I died of typhus aged 47 on 1 December 1825, but evidence suggests he faked his demise and lived as a holy man.
Russia's largest drama theatre has offered the country's new actor citizen a role in their troupe starting in March.
Image goes on display at new Tobolsk museum dedicated to the exile of Nikolai II and family shortly before they were shot.
It was in August 1917 - 95 years ago this month - that the abdicated emperor and his fearful family departed Tyumen into their Siberian exile.
Rare historic pictures show Russia's last tsar as the first builder of the Trans-Siberian Railway 125 years ago this month.
Royal discovery made after 99-year-old code is broken by Siberian mathematics genius.