Arakcheev
Illustrations and maps
429 p, illustrations
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Documentary narration about life and activities of the person important for the whole epoch in the history of Russia - count Aleksei Andreevich Arakcheev. Using archival documents, the author presents the figure of a great dignitary, that played the most important role in the mechanism of autocratic government in the late XVIII - the early XIX cc. Picturesque personality of Arakcheev is painted against the background of the events of that epoch, the relations with the emperors Paul I, Alexander I and Nicholas I.
