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Alexander I: The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon

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Description for Alexander I: The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon Paperback. Translator(s): Emanuel, Susan. Num Pages: 504 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVU; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 277 x 50. Weight in Grams: 676.

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 ... Read more

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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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
504
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780875807553
SKU
V9780875807553
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99-1

About Marie-Pierre Rey
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.

Reviews for Alexander I: The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon
This magisterial study of Alexander I rests on meticulous archival research and scholarly reading in multiple languages. This work will be a definitive study of Alexander I and the political history of his era.
Slavic Review
This is a well-researched, comprehensive and balanced biography of Alexander I.
Canadian-American Slavic Studies
Marie-Pierre Rey has written a new ... Read more

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