Exile mythology in the time of Tsar Alexander I

Franz Kruger. Equestrian portrait of Alexander I of Russia in the War Gallery of the Winter Palace (1812).

On the subject of mentalblog.com: Rabbi Moshe the son of RASHAZ Caught in the Thicket. There is bit of additional symmetry or synchronicity if you wish. Tzar Alexander I of Russia who allegedly told Graf Galitzin how to handle R. Moshe had this as final chapter of his life:

The unexpected death of the Emperor of Russia (1825. This was the Tsar that beat Napoleon) far from the capital caused persistent rumors that his death and funeral were staged, while the emperor allegedly renounced the crown and retired to spend the rest of his life in solitude. It was rumored that a "soldier" was buried as Alexander, or that the grave was empty, or that a British ambassador at the Russian court said he had seen Alexander boarding a ship. Some claimed that the former emperor had become a monk in either Pochaev Lavra or Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra or elsewhere. Many people, including some historians, supposed that a mysterious hermit Feodor Kuzmich (or Kozmich) who emerged in Siberia in 1836 and died in the vicinity of Tomsk in 1864, was in fact Alexander I under an assumed identity. While there are testimonies that "Feodor Kozmich" in his earlier life might have belonged to a higher society, his identity as Alexander I was never established beyond the reasonable doubt.