The Tsar in Tears
Greg Afinogenov: Alexander I, 7 February 2013
Alexander I: The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon
by Marie-Pierre Rey, translated by Susan Emanuel.
Northern Illinois, 439 pp., £26, November 2012,978 0 87580 466 8 Show More
by Marie-Pierre Rey, translated by Susan Emanuel.
Northern Illinois, 439 pp., £26, November 2012,
“... into exile – lay the whole mess of contradictions that was the life and reign of Alexander I. Marie-Pierre Rey acknowledges the tsar’s contradictions, but manages to extract from them a remarkably coherent image of a principled man who embraced constitutionalism when it still smelled of the guillotine, who gave constitutions to Finland, Poland and ... ”