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a-a-ra-s-s-s-s-a-s-s-a-s-a-s- Welcome to the Russian rulers podcast, episode 53. Guilt will follow him all his days.

Today's podcast is a little bit of a difficult one for me to give as the person who inspired me to learn about Russian history and history in general.

My father passed away this morning at the age of 89.

He had suffered a massive stroke a few days ago and you know was debating whether

to do this podcast or not but in his honor and you know he gave me a lot of love for history. I decided that I was going to go on as he would have wished.

So here we go.

Last week we recounted the short reign of Paul the first, his assassination by his

inner circle, and the ascension of his son Alexander to the throne as Emperor and

SAR of all Russia. as the

early one liberal and the latter more conservative.

I though tend to disagree as the liberal face was really only in spirit and talk with little

true liberal reform.

And what reform did occur, the majority of the people, the serfs, were certainly not the best best. the been done. It was a whole comment made by Palin to Alexander when the Newt Tsar hesitated to take

control. His full comment was, quote, stop being a child. Go and rain. Show your face to the guards. The welfare of millions of people depends upon your resolve.

Alexander for his part was unhappy with the way his father had ruled those brief four years,

so it is highly likely that he was in on the overthrow.

It is the murder of Paul that was to weigh heavily on his soul for the rest of his life.

As for his father's rule, he said in a letter to his former liberal tutor, LaHarp,

quote, when my father came to the throne,

he wished to reform everything.

The beginning of his reign was indeed bright enough,

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