Alexander M. Martin is Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Romantics, Reformers, Reactionaries:Russian Conservative Thought and Politics in the Reign of Alexander I (1997) and Enlightened Metropolis: Constructing Imperial Moscow, 1762-1855 (2013).

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Alexander M. Martin is Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Romantics, Reformers, Reactionaries:Russian Conservative Thought and Politics in the Reign of Alexander I (1997) and Enlightened Metropolis: Constructing Imperial Moscow, 1762-1855 (2013).

This is a remarkable book...The book has an almost encyclopedic character. Read this book. Cover to cover. Then give it to your colleagues, friends, students, postal carriers, and pets. Hopefully, someone among them will choose to emulate it. We need more books like this.

Alexander M. Martin is Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Romantics, Reformers, Reactionaries:Russian Conservative Thought and Politics in the Reign of Alexander I (1997) and Enlightened Metropolis: Constructing Imperial Moscow, 1762-1855 (2013).

This is a remarkable book...The book has an almost encyclopedic character. Read this book. Cover to cover. Then give it to your colleagues, friends, students, postal carriers, and pets. Hopefully, someone among them will choose to emulate it. We need more books like this.