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# Alexander I, from agitation against Napoleon to rapprochement with him at Tilsit
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/aleksandr-i-tseluetsia-s-napoleonom-na-plotu-posredi-nemana-vo-vremia-zakliucheniia-tilzitskogo-mira-v-iiune-1807-goda/
- Published: 2021-06-28T12:54:19.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:52:22.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Monarchies, Society, People

Alexander I Kisses Napoleon on a Raft in the Middle of the Niemen during the Conclusion of the Peace of Tilsit in June 1807.

Napoleon would later describe Alexander I as "a true Byzantine, cunning, feigning, subtle".

Indeed, only shortly before the meeting on the Niemen and the suddenly erupting friendship with Napoleon, Alexander I, stung by the defeat at Austerlitz, had been conducting a full-scale propaganda campaign across the country against Bonaparte the Antichrist. When circumstances forced Alexander to submit to a shameful but unavoidable peace with France, he deliberately entered into close relations with his bitterest enemy. It is even said that in Napoleon's tent the Russian Emperor changed his clothes, and, besides that, made use of his handkerchiefs and cravats.

Nevertheless, at the conclusion of the Peace of Tilsit, Alexander I remarked that Bonaparte would in the end break his neck, and that Russia would thereby gain time.