Alexander of Russia: Napoleon's ConquerorGrove Press, 2002 - 335 páginas 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 -- winner of the Prix Populiste and the coveted Prix Goncourt -- delivers a masterful portrait of Europe during a momentous period in its modern history. [Troyat's] broad-brush narrative restores to center stage important personalities and their interplay in the politics of the era. -- James H. Billington, The New York Times Book Review [A] briskly moving, richly illustrated, flesh-and-blood portrait. -- Publishers Weekly Troyat's biography of Alexander ... turns out to be more enthralling than most of the novels I've read lately. -- Pamela Marsh, The Christian Science Monitor |
Contenido
Monsieur Alexander | 1 |
Grandmother Son and Grandson | 19 |
The Reign of Paul | 34 |
The Secret Committee | 58 |
The Baptism of Fire | 75 |
Tilsit | 94 |
Embraces at Erfurt | 108 |
The Patriotic War | 137 |
The Holy Alliance | 227 |
Mystical Societies and Military Colonies | 240 |
The Secret Societies | 261 |
Taganrog | 277 |
Epilogue | 300 |
Notes | 306 |
Chronology | 312 |
323 | |
The French Campaign | 169 |
The Russians in Paris | 187 |
The Congress of Vienna | 207 |
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