The grandiose epic of German leadership of the European continent lasted for more than eight hundred years in various forms. Its formal completion dates back to 1806, when Napoleon Bonaparte destroyed the traditional scheme of European balance, marking the beginning of a new history of the continent. The era of uniform intermingling has arrived, which has opened up wide opportunities for political manipulations of a cosmopolitan nature. The dominance or predominance of the German type gave way to impoverishment introduced into European life by non-national elements. Imperial history is a thing of the past, remaining an unsurpassed example of multinational unity ever achieved in Europe.