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Aleksey Andreyevich, Graf Arakcheyev
Aleksey Andreyevich, Graf Arakcheyev Summary
Aleksey Andreyevich, Graf Arakcheyev was a military officer and statesman whose domination of the internal affairs of Russia during the last decade of Alexander I’s reign (1801–25) caused that period to be known as Arakcheyevshchina. The son of a minor landowner, Arakcheyev studied at the Artillery