Alexander the First. The tenth Russian emperor

Peter I proclaimed Russia to the Empire, and since then the Russian kings of the Romanov dynasty became referred to as emperors. Alexander I, nicknamed blessed, was the tenth emperor of the Russian Empire. Non-valued, the bright figure of Alexander I attracted the attention of the famous writer-historian Woldemara Nikolayevich Balyazin. Based on genuine historical documents, the author tells about the state and military activities of the emperor, as well as about his turbulent personal life. Liberal and youth of the future monarch were full of liberal and winster-loving dreams. However, forced to manage a huge empire, to fight Napoleon Bonaparte - and to defeat him - Alexander returns to the traditional autocracy and immersed in Orthodox mysticism