About the book: 2006 / Emperor Alexander I can undoubtedly be called the most mysterious and controversial figure among the Russian sovereigns of the 19th century. A republican by conviction, he occupied the Russian throne for a quarter of a century. The conqueror of Napoleon and the liberator of Europe, he went down in history as Alexander the Blessed - however, contemporaries, and later historians and writers, accused him of weakness, hypocrisy and other vices unworthy of a monarch. Finally, the circumstances of his death are mysterious. The famous writer and publicist Alexander Arkhangelsky talks about the mystery of Emperor Alexander in his book..