"Poker, the rules of which were developed by four brainy Yankees (Templar, Florence, Keller and Schenk), was born in the second half of the last century. Here, of course, we are talking about a card game. Political poker is as old as old worthy institutions of politics and diplomacy, therefore, it is a couple of thousand years older than card poker. Of all the historical poker games, one of the most interesting to me is the one in which two great emperors took part: the French Emperor Napoleon I and the Emperor of All Rus' Alexander I They played for a certain limited era, which is now called Napoleonic, neither long nor short - exactly fifteen years. It is this game that I want to talk about...”