Czar Alexander I of Russia and his adjutant at Rueil-Malmaison, France


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. This photo was taken during the 2nd 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: 3744px × 5616px
Location: Château de Malmaison, Rueil-Malmaison, Hauts-de-Seine, France, Western Europe
Photo credit: © DE ROCKER / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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