Chapter XI

Napoleon and the large Russia of the nineteenth century

A victory in Paris, then a freeze

Nicolas Gosse’s later painting of Napoleon receiving the Queen of Prussia at Tilsit, with Alexander I and Frederick William III looking on. — Nicolas Gosse, Napoleon receiving the Queen of Prussia at Tilsit, 6 July 1807, painted 1837. A later room of the Franco-Russian bargain — not a sketch from the raft on the Niemen. Nicolas Gosse. Public domain (PD-Art reproduction). Image source.

Paul inherited Catherine’s serfs and reversed her local settlement. The sections below follow his short reign and murder, Alexander I’s reforms that kept the autocracy, the bargain with Napoleon, the year 1812, the entry into Paris, the Decembrists on Senate Square, Nicholas I’s gendarmes, and the Crimean War that told a new emperor the empire was behind.

01Paul
02Alexander I
03Napoleon
041812
05Paris
06The Decembrists
07Nicholas I
08The Crimean War

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