Taken from his parents at birth by his grandmother
Taken from his parents at birth by his grandmother, she gave him as a tutor the Swiss philosophe La Harpe, trying to train him to be an "ideal" ruler. He ascended to the throne in 1801 upon the murder of his father with high hopes of reforming his country, but 24 years of indecisive reform policies led to the Decembrist revolt upon his death. FTP, name this Russian czar, the grandson of Catherine the Great, who played a leading role in Napoleon's defeat.
Taken from his parents at birth by his grandmother, she gave him as a tutor the Swiss philosophe La Harpe, trying to train him to be an "ideal" ruler.
{Alexander I}