Battle of two empires. 1805–1812

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Battle of two empires. 1805–1812

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Oleg Valeryevich Sokolov, one of the world's leading experts on the history of the Napoleonic era, holder of the Order of the Legion of Honor, the highest award of the French Republic, on the pages of this book reveals the secret of Napoleon's fatal decision to start a war with Russia in 1812. What is the true reason for the armed confrontation between Russia and France? What led to the failure of attempts at a Franco-Russian alliance? Were the wars with Russia on the part of Napoleon his true goal and desire? How was the "Polish question" resolved by the parties to the conflict and what is its role in the confrontation between the great powers? Were Alexander I and his empire victims of Napoleon's aggressive plans? Did the Russian emperor have plans for a preventive war with Europe controlled by Bonaparte? Whose intelligence turned out to be stronger and more sophisticated in obtaining information about the enemy? What is the role of Great Britain and the Franco-British conflict in the fate of relations between Russia and France? How did the continental blockade actually affect the economy of the Russian Empire? Was it possible for Alexander I, provided that he remained faithful to the spirit and letter of the Tilsit and Erfurt agreements, to expand the boundaries of Russian influence to the axis of Stockholm-Constantinople-Bosphorus-Balkans? In the already legendary book by the leading historian of the Napoleonic Wars, all these, and many other complex questions of the diplomatic competition between the two great powers, are given clear answers based on a wide source base of both Russian and French documents, many of which are first published in archives available to the general reader.

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Publication language: Russian

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