Alexander Of Russia

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: Good
Publisher: New English Library
Publisher Place: Usa
Publisher Year: 1982
Edition: First Edition

Description: 335 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Good condition and covered in a protective plastic. There is some light shelf and reading wear and inside page has been clipped, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: 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 Russias 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.

ISBN: 9780450060410