История России XIX столетия. том III

"Istorii͡a Rossii XIX stoletii͡a" doktora istoricheskikh nauk, professora Andrei͡a Borisovicha Zubova - ne khronologicheskiĭ pereskaz sobytiĭ, a razmyshlenie nad prichinami, kotorye priblizhali vozmozhnostʹ gibeli "istoricheskoĭ Rossii". Katastrofa nachala XX veka, schitaet professor Zubov, imeet namnogo bolee glubokie korni, chem prini͡ato dumatʹ. Vnimatelʹnoe izuchenie ėtikh prichin pomogaet ne tolʹko luchshe poni͡atʹ proshloe, no i obʺi͡asnitʹ nastoi͡ashchee. Tretiĭ tom posvi͡ashchën pervomu periodu t͡sarstvovanii͡a Nikolai͡a Pavlovicha. Natura "ryt͡sari͡a Nikolai͡a", kak ego zvali v detstve, "DonKikhota samoderzhavii͡a", kak nazyvali potom, nastoi͡alasʹ na idei͡akh absoli͡utnogo konservatizma ego nastavnikov, istorika Nikolai͡a Karamzina i generala Matiasa Lambzdorfa: chelovek - maloznachim, gosudarstvo - samot͡senno. Neumelai͡a, no pritom pafosnai͡a vneshni͡ai͡a politika byla oplachena izvestnoĭ t͡senoĭ - t͡senoĭ krovi russkogo soldata, tekhnicheskie proryvy - t͡senoĭ mucheniĭ i bedstviĭ prostogo cheloveka. K seredine t͡sarstvovanii͡a Nikolai͡a I za vneshnim bleskom Dvora i moshchʹi͡u millionnoĭ armii pronit͡satelʹnye nabli͡udateli vsë i͡asnee videli zastoĭ i upadok ogromnoĭ strany, zakovannoĭ v kandaly rabstva.

"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 third volume is devoted to the first period of the reign of Nikolai Pavlovich. The nature of "knight Nicholas," as he was called in childhood, "the quixote of autocracy," as he was later called, was based on the ideas of the absolute conservatism of his mentors, the historian Nikolai Karamzin and General Mathias Lambzdorff: man is insignificant, the state is valuable in itself. An inept, but pretentious foreign policy was paid for at a certain price — the price of the blood of a Russian soldier, technical breakthroughs — the price of the torments and disasters of the common man. By the middle of the reign of Nicholas I, astute observers saw more and more clearly the stagnation and decline of a vast country shackled in the shackles of slavery behind the external splendor of the Court and the power of a million-strong army.