The last reign of the XVIII century

Five years of Paul"s reign - the last reign of the XVIII century - shocked Russia. This lonely, who closed in his fantasies, by the time of the advantage of the throne seemed to contemporaries almost insane. Meanwhile, in the innovations of Paul there was a lot of useful, and without his reforms in the Army, Russia would hardly have done to Napoleon.
A lot of testimonial testimony has been preserved, pea-tempered, but also about sudden buses of generosity and nobility. Many of these stories are given in this book.
Further, the author will affect questions of Russian genealogy and heraldry: very interesting etudes about the peculiarities of the coat of arms and mottos, acquiring sonorous names. The second part of the reader"s book is waiting for meetings with many contemporaries and acting persons of history, with those who participated in the deeds of the XVIII century And they evaluated them differently