Slushaj, ty o chem voobshche?

Khochesh' istoriyu, pozhalujsta -- tol'ko ehto, esli uzh v ramkakh shkol'nogo uchebnika, to nado ego khotya by perechitat'.

Po rezul'tatam napoleonomakhii pognali Speranskogo (kotorym voskhishchalsya Napoleon):

From 1809 to 1812 Speransky was all-powerful in Russia, so far as any minister of a sovereign so suspicious and so unstable as Alexander could be so described. He replaced the earlier favorites, members of the unofficial committee, in the tsar's confidence, becoming practically sole minister, all questions being laid by him alone before the emperor and usually settled at once by the two between them. Even the once all-powerful war-minister Count Arakcheyev was thrust into the background. Speransky used his immense influence for no personal ends. He was an idealist, but in this very fact lay the seeds of his failure.

Prichem Aleksandr ego ubral eshche do vtorzheniya, pristo za masonstvo. A posle velikoj pobedy, reformy uzh tochno stali i sovsem nezachem, Arakcheev, hlysty, vse dela.

Dekabristy ehto reakciya na ehto, tipa lyudi vozmutilis', chto ikh naebali; i poluchili uzhe po polnoj programme, 30 let bez prosveta.