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The Reform Not Taken
Author: Tamara Eidelman
Translator: Nora Favorov
Russian Life: Mar/Apr 2011
Department: Russian Calendar
Page: 22 ( 3) pages
Summary: In 1811 Alexander I was on the brink of sweeping reforms to Russian autocracy. Until he read an essay by historian Nikolai Karamzin.
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