In 1825–1826 the Greek issue strained the Russo-Austrian relations. The Congress of Vienna in 1822 and the intervention into Spain were the last important acts carried out by the Holy Alliance, after that in fact it became defunct. Relying on the main aims of the Holy Alliance its participants were against the liberation War of Greeks against the Turkish Yoke. The same way the rebellion in Spain was defeated by the French Army in 1820–1823. It was practiced when the Austrian troops invaded Italy in order to suppress the rebellion in Naples (1820–1821). The Holy Alliance organized four Congresses to work out the principle of intervention into the European countries’ home affairs. The Russian Emperor Alexander I (the Holy Alliance was created at his behest) and the Chancellor of Austria Klemens Wenzel von Metternich performed the principal role in the Holy Alliance’s activities. However the representatives of Great Britain always participated in the Alliance Congresses and had influence over their decisions. Except for the Prince Regent of Great Britain, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and the Pope of Rome, all other European nations joined. In November 1815 the Holy Alliance Act was signed by the King of France Louis XVIII. The principal aim of the Alliance was to guard the postwar borders of Europe and make every effort to prevent the revolutionary influence. The contracting Monarchs considered each other as fellow countrymen, and agreed, on all occasions and in all places, to lend each other aid and assistance…” In other words the Holy Alliance represented a kind of treaty, which was intended to provide mutual aid between the Monarchs of Russia, Austria and Prussia on a large scale. The Act of Holy Alliance’s creation was affected by the religious ideas and contained references to the teaching of Jesus Christ, which “taught the men to consider each other as brethren, and not live in hostility and malice, but in peace and love”. On 14 (26) September 1815 the Emperor of Russia Alexander I, the Emperor of Austria Franz I and the King of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm III met in Paris to sign the “Act of Holy Alliance”.
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