If someone cuts off your arm, no doubt you would shout and cry in paint; last night I was deprived of Speransky and he was my right arm.
Alexander I of Russia
The tenth Emperor of Russia (1777–1825)
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He beat Napoleon by letting Russia's winter do the work, then spent his last years dismantling the liberal reforms he'd once promised. The tsar who talked constitutions but died an autocrat, leaving a throne no one wanted and a revolt brewing in his wake.
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The eldest son of Paul I, Alexander came to power in 1801 after his father was murdered. Early on he spoke the language of reform — building universities, appointing a village priest's son named Mikhail Speransky as advisor, sketching plans for a parliament and constitution that never materialized. His foreign policy toward Napoleon whipsawed four times in eight years: coalition partner, then ally after brutal losses at Austerlitz and Friedland, signing the Treaty of Tilsit in 1807 and joining the Continental System. He seized Finland from Sweden in 1809, but the alliance with France collapsed…
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