Edge of the centuries. Conspiracy against the emperor. Political struggle in Russia at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries

The book of the famous historian Nathan Eidelman is devoted to the domestic policy of the Russian Empire at the turn of the XVIII - XIX centuries. This is one of the most interesting periods of our history, which irreversibly outlined the line between Catherine’s Golden Age and the beginning of the new era.
The hero of this fascinating narrative was the most mysterious Russian emperor. The personality of the son of Peter III and Catherine the Great has always raised many questions. He was called the Russian Don Quixote, a romantic and at the same time a tyrant and a “crowned villain.”
Paul’s tragic death overgrown with many legends and changed the course of our history. Details of the conspiracy and the circumstances of the bloody coup are described in this study