Sankt-Peterburg, A. S. Suvorin, 1904 - 1905.
4to [29 by 21 cm]. VIII, 436; [4], 408; [4], 570; [4], 652 pp. With c. 450 illustrations, including portraits and other plates in colour, facsimilies, etc.
Four volumes, publisher's red cloth stamped in blind and gold, gilt lettering on spines and upper covers. Original chromolithographed printed wrappers and silk markers preserved.
Second edition of the German- born historian Nikolai Karlovich Shil'der's (Schilder) important monograph of the life and reign of Alexander 1 of Russia. Originally published in 1897-8.
Includes indices.

"Alexander I, Russian in full Aleksandr Pavlovich (b. Dec. 23 [Dec. 12, old style], 1777, St. Petersburg, Russia-d. Dec. 1 [Nov. 19, O.S.], 1825, Taganrog), emperor of Russia (1801-25), who alternately fought and befriended Napoleon I during the Napoleonic Wars but who ultimately (1813-15) helped form the coalition that defeated the emperor of the French. He took part in the Congress of Vienna (1814-15), drove for the establishment of the Holy Alliance (1815), and took part in the conferences that followed"(britannica.com).