Emperor Alexander III (1845–1894) entered Russian history with perhaps the most flattering nickname for a monarch—“Tsar the Peacemaker”: during all the years of his reign (1881–1894), Russia did not wage wars. A true Russian hero, he managed to inspire respect for himself and for his state in everyone - his own subjects, neighbors, and rulers of other states. Having accepted the country in a difficult moral, economic and political state, he handed it over to his heir completely calmed down and entering its heyday, looking towards the future, which to many then seemed cloudless and happy. And one can only bitterly regret that fate gave him only thirteen and a half years of reign... The author of the book, historian Alexander Myasnikov, focuses his attention primarily on the personality of Emperor Alexander III. His narrative is based on diaries, letters, memories of contemporaries and participants in the events. At the same time, many of the facts he cites in the biography of the “Tsar-Peacemaker” will sound quite unexpected for most readers.

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