This book offers the first book-length English language biography of Russian emperor Paul I (1754-1801), since a 1913 translation. Most of the essays have been written expressly for this volume. They examine PaulÆs education, his mental pathology, his administrative aims, curious relations with the knights of Malta and with Bonaparte, and his struggles with the threatening ideas emanating from the French Revolution. There is also a provocative new view of the conspiracy that took PaulÆs life.
| ISBN: | 9780822985983 |
| Publication date: | 15th October 1979 |
| Author: | Hugh Ragsdale |
| Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 220 pages |
| Series: | Russian and East European Studies |
| Genres: |
Biography: royalty European history |
This book offers the first book-length English language biography of Russian emperor Paul I (1754-1801), since a 1913 translation. Most of the essays have been written expressly for this volume.
Paul I features in the following genres: Biography: royalty, European history
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Paul I was written by Hugh Ragsdale and published by University of Pittsburgh Press
Paul I has 220 pages
Yes it is part of Russian and East European Studies series