Download or read book The Czar's Madman written by Jaan Kross and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1993 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scandalized his fellow aristocrats by spurning a far more appropriate marriage in order to wed a peasant's daughter. Then he committed an even more grievous infraction. Having sworn an oath to his sovereign always to tell him the truth, von Bock sent the czar a memorandum condemning his tyrannical rule. The reaction was prompt. Von Bock was banished from his estate and imprisoned for nine years in the Schlusselburg fortress. When Czar Alexander was succeeded by his.