Emperor Paul I. Life and reign. Shumigorsky E.

Evgeny Shumigorsky was the first historian who looked at the personality of Emperor Paul I, unprofiting, putting the basis of his work not anecdotes, abundantly scattered in the memoirs, but the strict facts of his biography.

We see Paul, Grand Duke, 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 disturbed from state affairs, builds in his soul And around itself, special reality and with the greatest suspicion refers to everything that contradicts it.

in the end, the subtle mental organization of Paul does not withstand and breaks - and the world is already in the appearance of the emperor, who wants to redo this world orders For the best, only fear and contempt causing subjects.

the book of Evgeny Shumigorsky to this day, perhaps, the best biography of Emperor Paul I - “Russian Hamlet”, as it was called in Europe.