Alexander I. In 2 books: Kazimir Valishevsky

Kazimir Feliksovich Valishevsky (Polish. Kazimierz Waliszewski; 1849-1935)- Polish historian, writer and publicist, known in Russia by works on the history of Russia of the XVII-XIX centuries. He publishes in France in French, starting in 1892, books about Russian kings and emperors, about their environment. Valishevsky’s books were combined into the series “The Origin of Modern Russia” and cover the period between the reign of Ivan the Terrible and Alexander I.
In 1929, “For great contribution to modern historiography” Valishevsky was awarded the award of the French Academy of Sciences.
His last book, dedicated to Alexander I, was published in Paris in 1925. The author pays great attention to the personal life of the monarch. The book of the Russian monarch is shown as an aristocrat and liberal, mysterious and melancholy, which seemed to his contemporaries a secret. Napoleon considered him an “inventive Byzantine”, and in Russia he was called the “mysterious Sphinx”. Alexander from the very beginning decided to play a great role on the Miro …

Author
Valishevsky Kazimir
Editor
Artemyeva-Skvortsova E.
Publisher
Book, 2013