Troyat, Henri
Alexander of Russia : Napoleon's Conqueror / Henri Troyat; Translated by Joan Pinkham - New York E. P. Dutton, Inc. 1982 - xi, 335 p.
Includes Index
In Paris and London, the crowds hailed him as the man who had conquered Napoleon, as the liberator of Europe, and as a benevolent, enlightened monarch. At home he came to be feared as a reactionary, oppressive autocrat in a country where millions of serfs were still treated as little more than personal property. A grandson of Catherine the Great, a conspirator in the assassination of his own father, and an idealistic and ineffective participant at the Congress of Vienna, Alexander was torn all his life between his liberal illusions and the hard realities of autocratic Russia. In a brilliant biography of one of the most unorthodox of Russia's tsars, Henri Troyat
64601
0525241442
9780525241447
Alexander I, Emperor of Russia 1777-1825 Biography
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French 1769-1821 Adversaries
History--Russia--1801-1825
Kings and rulers--Russia
Napoleonic Wars--Russia--1800-1815
History--Europe--1789-1815
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Alexander of Russia : Napoleon's Conqueror / Henri Troyat; Translated by Joan Pinkham - New York E. P. Dutton, Inc. 1982 - xi, 335 p.
Includes Index
In Paris and London, the crowds hailed him as the man who had conquered Napoleon, as the liberator of Europe, and as a benevolent, enlightened monarch. At home he came to be feared as a reactionary, oppressive autocrat in a country where millions of serfs were still treated as little more than personal property. A grandson of Catherine the Great, a conspirator in the assassination of his own father, and an idealistic and ineffective participant at the Congress of Vienna, Alexander was torn all his life between his liberal illusions and the hard realities of autocratic Russia. In a brilliant biography of one of the most unorthodox of Russia's tsars, Henri Troyat
64601
0525241442
9780525241447
Alexander I, Emperor of Russia 1777-1825 Biography
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French 1769-1821 Adversaries
History--Russia--1801-1825
Kings and rulers--Russia
Napoleonic Wars--Russia--1800-1815
History--Europe--1789-1815
947.0720924 Tro 15