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Paul I
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Paul I

A Reassessment of His Life and Reign

Edited By Hugh Ragsdale
The first major English-language work on Paul since the English translation of Waliszewski's biography in 1913. . . . [It is] an essential starting point for future research on the reign. . . . Useful and interesting collection.
Russian Review
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This book offers the first book-length English language biography of Russian emperor Paul I (1754–1801), since a 1913 translation. Most of the essays have been written expressly for this volume. They examine PaulÆs education, his mental pathology, his administrative aims, curious relations with the knights of Malta and with Bonaparte, and his struggles with the threatening ideas emanating from the French Revolution. There is also a provocative new view of the conspiracy that took PaulÆs life.

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A most welcome addition to the growing literature on Paul.

Slavic Review

220 Pages, 6 x 9 in.

October, 1979

isbn : 9780822985983

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Hugh Ragsdale

Hugh Ragsdale was professor of history at the University of Alabama and is an independent scholar living in Charlottesville, Virginia. He studied at Moscow University and the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow and is the author of numerous books and articles on Russian history.

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