Emperor Alexander I is one of the strangest, most mysterious, perhaps one of the most underrated figures in Russian history... Partly, he himself, of course, is “to blame” for creating such a reputation about himself: he was a strange, complex, secretive person; undoubtedly, he could see and realize a lot, he honestly searched for the truth, he sincerely believed in God, he wanted to carry the light of faith across the Earth... and he was unable to do almost anything. It is a sin for monarchs to complain about the inattention of researchers, and Alexander Pavlovich is no exception. The bibliography about him is enormous, meticulous people went through his life almost with a chronometer, and along the way described the fates of other people who in one way or another intersected with the fate of the sovereign. So is it worth studying a thousand times, sorted out and dissected a thousand times?.. It’s worth it! It is worth a lot if the goal of the research is not analysis, but synthesis, if you try to see human existence not as a period of time, but as a reflection of eternity, as an echo and premonition of different sides of history.