Aleksandr III - Sost. Barykina I.E., Chernukha V.G.

The reign of Alexander III was a time of vividly contradictory. The Emperor trusted the reform economists N.A. Bunge and S. Y. Witte, who sought to modernize Russia, and at the same time was under the hypnotic influence of the preacher of dead political stability K.P. Pobedonostsev. The emperor, who dreamed of the approval of the native Russians began in the state life, a man of simple, clear ideas and solid character, became the creator and victim of these dangerous contradictions for Russia, which gave rise to the fatal problems of the next Reign. Memoirs, diaries, letters of apologists and opponents of the tsar - a diverse set of sources collected in this book - gives a voluminous and objective view of the large and in its kind extraordinary personality of Alexander III and the era when fate was decided Russia.