EMPEROR NICHOLAS II AND THE RUSSIAN-FRENCH UNION: BEGINNING AND THE END OF THE "HONEYMOON". 1894-1903
The article discusses the importance of Russian-French Alliance in the first decade of the reign of Emperor Nicholas II, who saw its main task in not anti-German orientation, and in laying the cornerstone of a lasting peace in Europe. At the same time, the agreement with France has allowed St. Petersburg to keep, both German and English expansion. However, by 1904 over the Russian-French Union threatened a deep crisis: the victory of the radical socialists in France, the Russo-Japanese war and revolution 1905-1907 in Russia, questioned the very future of the Franco-Russian cooperation.