Background
Henri Leroy-Beaulieu wasborn on the 12th of February, 1842 in Lisieux, France.
Henri Leroy-Beaulieu wasborn on the 12th of February, 1842 in Lisieux, France.
Henri Leroy-Beaulieu specialized in writing about the history of Russia. In 1866 he published Une troupe de comédiens, and afterwards Essai sur la restoration de nos monuments historiques devant l'art et devant le budget, which deals particularly with the restoration of the cathedral of Evreux. He visited Russia in order to collect documents on the political and economic organization of the Slavic nations, and on his return published in the Revue des deux mondes (1882–1889) a series of articles, which appeared shortly afterwards in book form under the title L'Empire des tsars et les Russes (4th ed, revised in 3 vols, 1897–1898).