Александр II. Воспоминания. Дневники

The testimonies of contemporaries collected in this volume - letters, diaries, memoirs - bring to the reader the light of a distant life, the life of Alexander II, from the moment of his birth to the day of his tragic death. Between these events are childhood and youth, years of learning the “royal craft,” accession, years of major transformations and the daily routine of government affairs. Each author saw and noted something of his own that was important to him. All together it represents a unique portrait of a person and a statesman. The book includes memories of: Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, V.A. Zhukovsky, K.K. Merder, A.S. Pushkin, A. de Custine, I.I. Markelov, A. F. Tyutcheva, P. A. Kropotkin, A. N. Benois, V. P. Meshchersky, B. N. Chicherin and many others. etc.