На путях к Священному союзу: идеи войны и мира в России начала XIX века

The monograph examines the ideological origins of the Holy Alliance*, which ended the era of the Napoleonic Wars, discusses projects of eternal peace and plans for the peaceful reorganization of Europe. For the first time, the "people's war" as an ideological construction of 1812 is considered in detail. Particular attention is paid to church preaching, in which the war and the people leading it are elevated to biblical "prototypes". Foreign campaigns dramatically changed the official ideology, shifting it towards cosmopolitanism - this is how the idea of the Holy Alliance was born. Among European diplomats and politicians, the Holy Alliance initially aroused suspicion and misunderstanding. But during the period of congresses, when the ideology of the Holy Alliance took on the character of political decisions, the European public moved from bewilderment to criticism. Meanwhile, all attempts to penetrate into the essence of the plan of the Russian Tsar, as well as liberal criticism of the Holy Alliance, do not reveal its true essence, which still remains largely mysterious. The book is addressed to historians, philologists and all those interested in the problems of Russian and European history. * Not being in the exact sense of the word a formalized agreement of the powers that would impose certain obligations on them, the Holy Alliance, nevertheless, went down in the history of European diplomacy as "a cohesive organization with a sharply defined clerical-monarchist ideology, created on the basis of the suppression of revolutionary sentiments, where whatever they show up"