История России XIX столетия. том III

«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. Tretyy tom posvyashchyon pervomu peryodu tsarstvovanyya Nykolaya Pavlovycha. Natura «rytsarya Nykolaya», kak ego zvaly v detstve, «DonKykhota samoderzhavyya», kak nazyvaly potom, nastoyalas na ydeyakh absolyutnogo konservatyzma ego nastavnykov, ystoryka Nykolaya Karamzyna y generala Matyasa Lambzdorfa: chelovek — maloznachym, gosudarstvo — samotsenno. Neumelaya, no prytom pafosnaya vneshnyaya polytyka byla oplachena yzvestnoy tsenoy — tsenoy krovy russkogo soldata, tekhnycheskye proryvy — tsenoy muchenyy y bedstvyy prostogo cheloveka. K seredyne tsarstvovanyya Nykolaya I za vneshnym bleskom Dvora y moshchyu myllyonnoy armyy pronytsatelnye nablyudately vsyo yasnee vydely zastoy y upadok ogromnoy strany, zakovannoy 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.