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Alexander I - The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon (Hardcover) Loot Price: R912
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Alexander I - The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon (Hardcover): Marie-Pierre Rey

Alexander I - The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon (Hardcover)

Marie-Pierre Rey; Translated by Susan Emanuel

Series: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

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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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Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Release date: November 2012
First published: November 2012
Authors: Marie-Pierre Rey
Translators: Susan Emanuel
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 39mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 978-0-87580-466-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Books > History > European history > General
Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Books > Biography > Historical, political & military
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LSN: 0-87580-466-7
Barcode: 9780875804668

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