Napoléon Et Alexandre Ier
Author | : Albert Vandal |
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Release | : 2010 |
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Author | : Albert Vandal |
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Release | : 2010 |
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Author | : Alexander C. Niven |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Marie-Pierre Rey |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2012-11-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1609090659 |
Alexander I was a ruler with high aspirations for the people of Russia. Cosseted as a young grand duke by Catherine the Great, he ascended to the throne in 1801 after the brutal assassination of his father. In this magisterial biography, Marie-Pierre Rey illuminates the complex forces that shaped Alexander's tumultuous reign and sheds brilliant new light on the handsome ruler known to his people as "the Sphinx." Despite an early and ambitious commitment to sweeping political reforms, Alexander saw his liberal aspirations overwhelmed by civil unrest in his own country and by costly confrontations with Napoleon, which culminated in the French invasion of Russia and the burning of Moscow in 1812. Eventually, Alexander turned back Napoleon's forces and entered Paris a victor two years later, but by then he had already grown weary of military glory. As the years passed, the tsar who defeated Napoleon would become increasingly preoccupied with his own spiritual salvation, an obsession that led him to pursue a rapprochement between the Orthodox and Roman churches. When in exile, Napoleon once remarked of his Russian rival: "He could go far. If I die here, he will be my true heir in Europe." It was not to be. Napoleon died on Saint Helena and Alexander succumbed to typhus four years later at the age of forty-eight. But in this richly nuanced portrait, Rey breathes new life into the tsar who stood at the center of the political chessboard of early nineteenth-century Europe, a key figure at the heart of diplomacy, war, and international intrigue during that region's most tumultuous years.
Author | : Henri Troyat |
Publisher | : Grove Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780802139498 |
In Paris and London, the crowds hailed him as the man who had conquered Napoleon, as the liberator of Europe, and as a benevolent, enlightened monarch. At home he came to be feared as a reactionary, oppressive autocrat in a country where millions of serfs were still treated as little more than personal property. A grandson of Catherine the Great, a conspirator in the assassination of his own father, and an idealistic and ineffective participant at the Congress of Vienna, Alexander was torn all his life between his liberal illusions and the hard realities of autocratic Russia. In a brilliant biography of one of the most unorthodox of Russia's tsars, Henri Troyat -- winner of the Prix Populiste and the coveted Prix Goncourt -- delivers a masterful portrait of Europe during a momentous period in its modern history. [Troyat's] broad-brush narrative restores to center stage important personalities and their interplay in the politics of the era. -- James H. Billington, The New York Times Book Review [A] briskly moving, richly illustrated, flesh-and-blood portrait. -- Publishers Weekly Troyat's biography of Alexander ... turns out to be more enthralling than most of the novels I've read lately. -- Pamela Marsh, The Christian Science Monitor
Author | : Albert Vandal |
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Release | : 1891 |
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Author | : François Charles-Roux |
Publisher | : Plon |
Total Pages | : 576 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Europe |
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Author | : Marion Rose Lemke |
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Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 1939 |
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Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2015-04-21 |
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ISBN | : 9789078653554 |
In 2015, as the Battle of Waterloo is commemorated throughout Europe, the Hermitage Amsterdam will turn the clock back to the decisive years that preceded Waterloo, the days of Napoleon Bonaparte and two exceptional and very different contemporaries: Tsar Alexander I, his friend and enemy, and Joséphine, the love of his life. After arriving at the Hermitage Amsterdam, on 11 March, Napoleon’s iconic death mask was removed from its case and placed in the exhibition. It will be exhibited alongside more than 200 art treasures and historical objects at the Hermitage Amsterdam.00Exhibition: Hermitage Amsterdam, The Netherlands (28 March – 8 November 2015).
Author | : Vandal |
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Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : France |
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Author | : Vandal Albert |
Publisher | : Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2016-06-23 |
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ISBN | : 9781318915361 |
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