History in novels. Two emperors

Dmitry Savutateevich Dmitriev (1848-1915) - writer, playwright. Born in Moscow in a merchant family. Rising the Son in Strictly Religious Spirit, the Father did not allow him to go to the gymnasium. His literacy taught a monastery. Since the 1870s, Dmitriev served in the library of Moscow University, then he began to publish stories, scenes, essays, mostly domestic ones. In the 1880s, he composes the plays for folk scenes, marked by the strong influence of A. N. Ostrovsky. Since the late 1980s, Dmitriev writes mostly historical novels and stories (they are published more than sixty) In 1908, after the death of the only son, a priestly san was accepted. The novel Two emperors, published in this volume, tells about one of the most dramatic periods of the history of the Napoleonic war-confrontation of France and Russia, Napoleon and Alexander I. On the pages of the novel, it begins with the defeat of allied troops at Austerlice, where the Russian army headed Russian himself The emperor, and ends with a complete defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. Alexander I is proclaimed by the liberator of Europe, and Napoleon dies on a small island, everyone abandoned and forgotten