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Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825
1453 Through the Reign of Ivan the Terrible (1533-1584) The Time of Troubles to the First Romanovs (1598-1682) Peter the Great and His Legacy (1682-1762) The Age of Catherine the Great (1762-1801) The Reign of Emperor Alexander I (1801-1825)

                                     

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  Russia Events
Russia Symbol Founding of the Ministries
Russia Symbol Treaties of Tilsit
Russia Symbol Battle of Borodino
Russia Symbol Founding of Fort Ross, 1812
Russia Symbol Arakcheev’s Military Colonies
Russia Symbol Decembrist Revolt
  World Events
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 Publication of Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, 1755
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 Russia Moves Against Persia, 1804
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 England Secures Control of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean, 1805
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 The Congress of Vienna, 1814–15


Russia's Globalization:
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   A Fragile Peace
  A Fragile Peace
   ID 1167858   Photographic Services & Permissions
  Friedrich Justin Bertuch (1747–1822), supposed author
Beschreibung der Feierlichkeiten welche bei Anwesenheit von Ihro Majestäten der Kaiser Alexander und Napoleon [A Description of the Festivities Attended by Their Majesties Tsar Alexander I and Napoleon]
Weimar: Landes Industrie Comptoirs, 1809
NYPL, General Research Division

The meeting between Napoleon and Alexander I in September-October 1808 was an attempt to preserve their alliance, established at Tilsit the previous year. Their warm public expressions of friendship notwithstanding, their private discussions were often stormy. They never saw one another again.