Император Александр Второй (комплект из 2 книг)

The life and work of Emperor Alexander II, who won fame as a reformer and enlightener and was nicknamed the Liberator by the people, is one of the most important milestones in the history of the Fatherland. The 25-year era of his reign became a kind of political outlet for Russia. It began with the conclusion of the Peace of Paris after the exhausting Crimean War, with an amnesty for the Decembrists of 1856 - and tragically ended on March 1, 1881, on the day when Alexander II decided to give the go-ahead to the constitutional project of M.T. Loris-Melikov ... And the state plan was blown up by a Narodnaya Volya bomb on the embankment of the Catherine Canal. During these twenty-five "thaw" years, the emperor wrote a huge track record in history: the liquidation of military settlements, the abolition of serfdom, the implementation of zemstvo, judicial, educational reforms, the restriction of censorship, the granting of autonomy to the Caucasian highlanders. The work of the outstanding historian Sergei Spiridonovich Tatishchev occupies a special place among numerous studies on the personality of Alexander II. The author was not only a contemporary of the Tsar-Liberator, a witness of great transformations, but also a direct participant in the historical events that took place in the described era: he served in the diplomatic field during the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878. volunteered for the active Danube army, was an orderly under General Totleben. In his book, S. Tatishchev, based on the most valuable documents and materials, brilliantly conveyed the historical atmosphere of the era of Emperor Alexander II, reflected the outstanding role of the autocrat in the public, geopolitical and social life of Russia.