Alexander l

Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias, Grand Duke of Finland, Tsar of Poland, Protector of the Order of Malta,

"Blessed" - in Russian historiography

At the beginning of his reign, he carried out moderately liberal reforms developed by the Secret Committee and Mikhail Speransky. In foreign policy, he maneuvered between Great Britain and France. In 1805-1807, he participated in anti-French coalitions. In 1807-1812, he temporarily became closer to France. He waged successful wars with Turkey (1806-1812), Persia (1804-1813), and Sweden (1808-1809). Under Alexander I, the territories of Eastern Georgia (1801), Finland (1809), Bessarabia (1812), and the former Duchy of Warsaw (1815) were annexed to Russia. After the Patriotic War of 1812, he headed the anti-French coalition in 1813-1814. The conqueror of Napoleon I Bonaparte: on March 31, 1814, the coalition troops under the leadership of Alexander I entered Paris. He was one of the leaders of the Vienna Congress of 1814-1815 and the founders of the Holy Alliance.
He grew up at the intellectual court of Catherine the Great; his tutor, the Swiss Jacobin Frederic César de La Harpe, introduced him to the principles of Rousseau's humanity, his military teacher Nikolai Saltykov - to the traditions of the Russian aristocracy, his father passed on to him his passion for military parades and taught him to combine spiritual love for humanity with practical care for his neighbor. Catherine II considered her son Paul incapable of taking the throne and planned to put Alexander on the throne, bypassing his father. Alexander owed many of his character traits to his grandmother, who took her son from his mother and sent him to live in Tsarskoye Selo, near her, far from his parents, who lived in their palaces (in Pavlovsk and Gatchina) and rarely appeared at the "great court". However, the child, as can be seen from all the reviews about him, was an affectionate and gentle boy, so communicating with him was a great pleasure for the royal grandmother.

Young Alexander was intelligent and gifted, shared liberal ideas, but was lazy, conceited and superficial in acquiring knowledge, unable to concentrate on long-term and serious work.

Orthodoxy

French language, Russian and French cuisine, explore Alaska.

expand Alaska and improve financing for Russian America, take a couple of lands in the Caucasus and Moldova from the Ottoman Empire, and come to an agreement with Napoleon.