And yet he didn’t do it quite like Russian! Maybe, indeed, only because “the ruler is weak and crafty”? But this book will rather lead to another thought: it was easy to say this to one Alexander about another - although older, but still a contemporary. What about us, living two centuries later? And we, having laughed to our hearts’ content at the diligent student of La Harpe, thrilled in anticipation of mystical conversations with Mrs. Krudener, anxiously look at the clock: we shouldn’t miss Mr. Kashpirovsky’s session! Or, having looked down on the constitutional attempts of the ill-fated enlightened monarch, we turn to the same blue screen to see pictures of the modern “civilized” implementation of the constitution somewhere on the banks of the Terek or Neman. Because, as reading this book convinces, every century, every time is capable of opening up before a person the opportunity to begin with an ardent desire to bestow near and far with all the benefits that the smart heads of encyclopedist philosophers could come up with, and end with an equally ardent desire to equip for those near and far as many distant ones as possible... military settlements. And, closing this book, the puzzled reader may say, not quite in Russian: c'est la vie!