Two brothers on the Russian throne. Lyashenko L.

the era of the reign of the two Russian emperors - Alexander I and Nicholas I - was one of the most saturated and dramatic in domestic history. The emperor’s accession to the throne after the death of his father and the return to liberalism and the enlightened rule of Catherine, then replaced by a thunderstorm of 1812, the victorious procession of Russian troops in Europe and the transition to conservative domestic policy, the uprising of the Decembrists, the construction of the first railway in Russia, the systematization of the laws of the empire, and The creation of the gendarmes corps, a ruined Crimean war - all these are only bright milestones in the fate of the two monarchs.

What decisions of the two emperors led to such consequences? What is the reason for the conflict of Russia and Europe? Could the story go a different path? The reader will be able to find the answer to these and other questions on the pages of the book. The author, based on genuine documents of that era, memoirs of eyewitnesses and archival materials, lifts the veil of secrets and tells about Russia and its rulers, representing them not as monumental rulers of the past, but as living people.

Thanks to the easy language of presentation of the material And this book will be interesting not only to professional researchers, but also by a wide range of history lovers.