Emperor Paul I. Life and reign
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Evgeny Shumigorsky was the first historian who looked at the personality of Emperor Paul I, unprofitable, laying the basis of his work not anecdotes, abundantly scattered in memoirs, but the strict facts of his biography. We see Paul, the Grand Duke, a sensitive boy, then a straightforward young man who accepts knightly virtues as a way of life, but at the same time, after the author, we notice how his character changes, how he, surrounded by the efforts of Catherine II by strangers and distant from state deeds, builds a special reality in his soul and around him and with the greatest suspicion applies to everything that contradicts it. In the end, the subtle mental organization Paul does not withstand and breaks - and the world is already in the appearance of the emperor, who wants to redo this world for the best, but causing subjects only fear and contempt. The book of Evgeny Shumigorsky to this day, perhaps, the best biography of Emperor Paul I - “Russian Hamlet”, as called it in Europe, published in 1907
Author:
Author:Шумигорский Е.
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Biographies & Memoirs
- Category:History & Geography
- Category:Culture
- Category:Others
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-91678-747-4
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