История России XIX столетия. том II

«Ystoryya Rossyy XIX stoletyya» doktora ystorycheskykh nauk, professora Andreya Borysovycha Zubova — ne khronologycheskyy pereskaz sobytyy, a razmyshlenye nad prychynamy, kotorye pryblyzhaly vozmozhnost gybely «ystorycheskoy Rossyy». Katastrofa nachala XX veka, schytaet professor Zubov, ymeet namnogo bolee glubokye korny, chem prynyato dumat. Vnymatelnoe yzuchenye etykh prychyn pomogaet ne tolko luchshe ponyat proshloe, no y obyasnyt nastoyashchee. Vo vtorom tome rech ydyot o samom slavnom, byt mozhet, desyatyletyy v ystoryy Rossyy — 1815–1825 godakh. Eto desyatyletye polnogo myra. Dlya Rossyy vse voyny zakoncheny. Evropa pryznayot avtorytet strany, osvobodyvshey eyo ot vlasty Napoleona. Ymperatora Aleksandra ymenuyut «Agamemnonom Evropy», sravnyvaya ego s vozhdyom akheyskykh tsarey v predanyy o Troyanskoy voyne. Aleksandr ustanavlyvaet konstytutsyonnuyu monarkhyyu y dynastyyu Burbonov vo Frantsyy, sobyraet pod svoym skypetrom konstytutsyonnuyu Polshu. On gotovyt y obshcherossyyskuyu konstytutsyyu, y osvobozhdenye krepostnykh krestyan. Svyashchennoe Pysanye perevodytsya na bolee chem chetyre desyatka yazykov Ymperyy, v tom chysle y na sovremennyy russkyy, y rasprostranyaetsya v sotnyakh tysyach ekzemplyarov. Rossyyskoe obshchestvo, kazalos by, nakhodytsya na nebyvalom podyome. No blystatelnoe tsarstvovanye zavershaetsya stranno y nelepo. Pochemu?

"The History of Russia in the 19th Century" by Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Andrey Borisovich Zubov is not a chronological retelling of events, but a reflection on the reasons that brought the possibility of the death of "historical Russia" closer. The catastrophe of the early 20th century, Professor Zubov believes, has much deeper roots than is commonly thought. A careful study of these reasons helps not only to better understand the past, but also to explain the present. The second volume deals with the most glorious decade, perhaps, in the history of Russia — 1815-1825. This is a decade of complete peace. For Russia, all wars are over. Europe recognizes the authority of the country that freed it from the rule of Napoleon. Emperor Alexander is called the "Agamemnon of Europe", comparing him to the leader of the Achaean kings in the legend of the Trojan War. Alexander establishes a constitutional monarchy and the Bourbon dynasty in France, gathers constitutional Poland under his scepter. He is preparing both the all-Russian constitution and the emancipation of the serfs. The Holy Scriptures are translated into more than four dozen languages of the Empire, including modern Russian, and distributed in hundreds of thousands of copies. Russian society, it would seem, is on an unprecedented rise. But the brilliant reign ends strangely and absurdly. Why?