Alexander I. Autocratic Republican: Leonid Lyashenko

Without a doubt, Alexander I is the most incomprehensible of the Russian monarchs: generous and despicable, timid and brave, who considered himself a republican until the end of his life, but resolutely stopped any attempts to encroach on his power. “In love was gritted by anger, / Love was warming in anger,” P. A. Vyazemsky wrote about him. He did not want, like Napoleon, to tremble in front of him, but wanted him to be loved. After the victory over France, the allies took her ports, fortresses, ships, guns – the Russian emperor did not take anything and, taking Paris, saved the Louvre from the looting, but never in his life visited the Borodino field. The secular ladies of the whole of Europe could not resist his charm, but in his own family he was only one of the “sides” of the love quadrangle.
The assessments given by the historians of the individual and the reign of Alexander I are so polar that they only exacerbate the feeling of lack of nothing. Leonid Lyashenko offers his own view of the motivation of the actions of the rebellious emperor, I allow …

Author
Lyashenko Leonid Mikhailovich
Editor
Nikulin E.A.
Publisher
Young Guard, 2014
Series
ZhZL – Small series

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