Chapter IX: Russia in the Napoleonic Epoch (1796-1815 A.d.) 426

Early measures of the reign of Paul I, 426. Imperial
eccentricities, 427. Paul’s foreign policy, 432. The campaigns
of Korsakov and Suvarov, 433. Paul reconciled with France,
436. The armed neutrality, 438. Assassination of Paul, 440.
The accession of Alexander I (1801 A.D.): His early reforms,
443. The incorporation of Georgia, 444. Russia joins the third
coalition, 445. The campaign of Austerlitz, 446. The campaign
of Eylau and Friedland, 451. Meeting of Alexander and Napoleon
at Tilsit, 455. Russia declares war against England, 456. The
conquest of Finland, 457. War with Persia and with Turkey, 459.
Congress of Erfurt, 463. Renewed war with Turkey, 466. War with
Napoleon, 468. Napoleon invades Russia, 471. The abandonment of
Moscow, 473. The retreat of the grand army, 476. Napoleon on
the road to Smolensk, 477. The battle of Viazma; Smolensk is
found evacuated, 480. Kutusov’s policy, 481. Campaigns of the
Grand Alliance, 484. Alexander I at the capitulation of Paris,
487. The Russian occupation of Paris, 488. Alexander I and
the congress of Vienna, 490. Alexander’s religious mysticism;
Baroness Krüdener, 493. Alexander’s holy alliance, 496.

CHAPTER X

ALEXANDER I, MYSTIC AND HUMANITARIAN (1801-1825 A.D.) 499

The complex character of Alexander I, 499. Ministerial
influences; Speranski and Araktcheiev, 501. Educational
advances; the Lycée and the library, 502. Expulsion of the
Jesuits from St. Petersburg, 504. Liberation of the peasants of
the Baltic provinces, 505. The emperor and the quakers, 506.
Secret societies under Alexander I, 510. Closing of the masonic
lodges, 513. Turgeniev’s comment on the secret societies, 514.
Literary activity of the period, 516. Alexander I as a patron
of literature, 517. Failure of the Polish experiments, 518.
Constitutional projects, 520. The military colonies, 521.
Alexander and the great uprising, 523. The great inundation
of 1824, 525. The close of Alexander’s reign, 527. Death of
Alexander I, 530. Alison’s estimate of Alexander I, 531.
Skrine’s estimate of Alexander I, 532.