How to Prank Tsar Nicholas I

…if, you know, you’re fond of Siberia and don’t value your life

When you prank the guy who rules one-sixth of the earth’s surface, you either have balls of steel or you’re clinically insane.

Tsar Nicholas I of Russia is generally known as a hard-ass. Mention his reign to an academic, and they’ll tell you about censorship, repression, authoritarianism, and the slow but inexorable march to…