Alexander I: The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon (Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) - Hardcover

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Rey, Marie-Pierre

 
9780875804668: Alexander I: The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon (Niu Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0875804667 ISBN 13: 9780875804668
Verlag: NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIV, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Alexander I was a ruler with high aspirations for the people of Russia. Cosseted as a young grand duke by Catherine the Great, he ascended to the throne in 1801 after the brutal assassination of his father. In this magisterial biography, Marie-Pierre Rey illuminates the complex forces that shaped Alexander&;s tumultuous reign and sheds brilliant new light on the handsome ruler known to his people as "the Sphinx."
 
Despite an early and ambitious commitment to sweeping political reforms, Alexander saw his liberal aspirations overwhelmed by civil unrest in his own country and by costly confrontations with Napoleon, which culminated in the French invasion of Russia and the burning of Moscow in 1812. Eventually, Alexander turned back Napoleon&;s forces and entered Paris a victor two years later, but by then he had already grown weary of military glory. As the years passed, the tsar who defeated Napoleon would become increasingly preoccupied with his own spiritual salvation, an obsession that led him to pursue a rapprochement between the Orthodox and Roman churches.
 
When in exile, Napoleon once remarked of his Russian rival: &;He could go far. If I die here, he will be my true heir in Europe.&; It was not to be. Napoleon died on Saint Helena and Alexander succumbed to typhus four years later at the age of forty-eight. But in this richly nuanced portrait, Rey breathes new life into the tsar who stood at the center of the political chessboard of early nineteenth-century Europe, a key figure at the heart of diplomacy, war, and international intrigue during that region&;s most tumultuous years.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Marie-Pierre Rey is professor of Russian and Soviet history at the University of Paris I (Sorbonne) and director of the Slavic Research Center. She has written De la Russie à l&;Union Sovietique: La Construction de l&;Empire 1462-1953 and Le Dilemme Russe: La Russie et l&;Europe Occidental d&;Ivan le Terrible à Boris Eltsine. An American translator of twenty years standing, Susan Emanuel has specialized in sociology, history, cultural studies, international relations, religion, and biography.


Marie-Pierre Rey is professor of Russian and Soviet history at the University of Paris I (Sorbonne) and director of the Slavic Research Center. She has written De la Russie à l'Union Sovietique and Le Dilemme Russe. An American translator of twenty years standing, Susan Emanuel has specialized in sociology, history, cultural studies, international relations, religion, and biography.

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Verlag
NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIV
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0875804667
ISBN 13 
9780875804668
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