This is story of Russian's mysterious Tsar Alexander I. The enigmatic grandsone of Catherine the Great was an enlightened monarch hamstrung by the history and traditions of an unwieldy empire. His complicity in his father's death, and elusive marriage, romance with his sister, and the ultimate mystery of his final years, speak of a tormented soul. Did Alexander die in 1825? Why was his grave empty when the Bolsheviks opened it? Did he live out a long old age as a monk in Siberia? Based on extensive research and a visit to the Leningrad State Archives, this is the first account to develop the underlying psychological themes of Alexander's life. The reader is drawn in to the minds of the characters, and their world around the court of St. Petersburg, and on the wider stages of Napoleon's Europe.