Napoleon I Emperor of the French (1769-1821) and Tsar Alexander I of Russia (1777-1825) sailing back after meeting at the Neman River (1807)
Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 - 5 May 1821) was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the latter stages of the French Revolution and its associated wars in Europe. Mark Schneider (1969) is a well-known professional American actor who portraits Napoleon Bonaparte during Napoleonic reenactments and events throughout Europe and North America. Alexander I (23 December 1777 - 1 December 1825 reigned as Emperor of Russia from 23 March 1801 to 1 December 1825. He was the son of Paul I and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg. Alexander was the first Russian King of Poland, reigning from 1815 to 1825, as well as the first Russian Grand Duke of Finland. The Treaties of Tilsit were two agreements signed by Napoleon I of France in the town of Tilsit in July 1807 in the aftermath of his victory at Friedland. The first was signed on 7 July, between Tsar Alexander I of Russia and Napoleon I of France, when they met on a raft in the middle of the Neman River. The second was signed with Prussia on 9 July. The treaties were made at the expense of the Prussian king, who had already agreed to a truce on 25 June after the Grande Armée had pursued him to the easternmost frontier of his realm. In Tilsit, he ceded about half of his pre-war territories. This photo was taken during the 3rd Imperial Jubilee in and around the Château de Malmaison in Rueil-Malmaison, France. It was formerly the residence of Empress Joséphine de Beauharnais and was, with the Tuileries, from 1800 to 1802 the headquarters of the French government, and Napoleon's last residence in France at the end of the Hundred Days in 1815.
Size: 5760px × 3840px
Location: Chateau de Malmaison, Rueil-Malmaison, Hauts-de-Seine, France, Western Europe
Photo credit: © DE ROCKER / Alamy / Afripics
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