| Edition |
[First U.S. edition]. |
| Description |
xviii, 487 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 462-470. |
| Contents |
The Crow in Peacocks Feathers -- The Bronze Horseman -- Alexander's Childhood -- Betrothal and Marriage -- The Last Years of Catharine II -- The Succession in Doubt -- Empire on Parade -- The Grand Duke Comes to Town -- Doubts of a Tsarevich -- Suvorov in Italy and Switzerland -- Mounting Tension in the Capital -- Murder at the Mikhailovsky (March 1801) -- The Cracking ot the Ice -- The Promise of Reform -- The Secret Committee and its Enemies -- Alexander's Coronation in Moscow (September 1801) -- "The Emperor Wants it Thus" -- Foreign Affairs: Isolation or Alignment? -- Governmental Reorm and the Primacy of Vorontsow -- Alexander, Elizabeth and Maria Naryshkin -- Shadow of War -- Alexander Disillusioned with the First Consul (1803-4) -- Cxartoryski, Novosiltsov and the Grand Design of 1804 -- Military Plans and the Polish Question -- Alexander at Pulawy and Berlin (October-November 1805) -- Austerlitz and After -- Alexander and Kutuzov in Moravia -- Peace Parleys -- The Battle of Austerlitz (2 December 1805) -- Alexander Humiliated -- Anathema -- Inquest on Austerlitz -- The End of Government by the Tsar's Friends -- Across the Bridge -- Preparing for War on Two Fronts, 1806 -- Eylau and Friedland -- Tilsit -- Alexander and Napoleon Meet in Midstream -- The Fine Phrases of Tilsit -- The Tilsit Settlement (July 1807) -- As Destiny Demands -- The Effects of Tilsit Abroad -- Alexander's Throne in Danger? -- Caulaincourt Arrives in St. Petersburg (December 1807) -- The Death of Lisinka (May 1808) -- Erfurt -- The Primacy of Speransky -- The Rise of Michael Speransky -- The Reforms of 1808-9 and their Critics -- The Council of State at Work -- The Viceroy -- Caulaincourt: The Prussian Royal Visit; and the Marriage of Catherine -- Russia and Napoleon's 1809 Campaign -- A Russian Empress for the French? -- "Blood Must Flow Again" -- Alexander at Tver and Gruzino -- Personal Sorrows, 1810 -- Alexander takes Russia out of the Continental System -- The War Scare of 1811 -- Discomforted Diplomats -- Portents and Military Plans -- The Fall of Speransky and Alexander's Departure for the Army. |
| Subject |
Alexander I, Emperor of Russia, 1777-1825.
|
|
Russia -- History -- Alexander I, 1801-1825.
|
| ISBN |
0060132647 |
|
