“The mystery of Alexander I, his death in Taganrog or abdication of the throne during his lifetime, remains unsolved to this day. Is it just idle curiosity, moreover, not of historians, but of laymen, in all these disputes about Alexander I, which do not die out even now, or is there something more? Probably, there are. Descendants seem to want to understand the true historical lines of Russia, to penetrate to the truth itself, and often discard old legends and fictions, the official and unofficial rubbish of history. Our descendants now look at many things in our past with different and harsh eyes...”