Compare European and Russian society at the beginning of the 19th century.

In Europe, on average, the level of education was higher, there were more universities, libraries, literate people, inventors.

In Europe, there was no longer such a neglected serfdom; trade, including with the colonies, developed faster. The surplus population left for the Western Hemisphere, mainly in the United States. The percentage of the urban population was higher.

In Russia there was an autocracy, and in Europe there were monarchs with limited rights, in England, for example, there was also no parliament in Russia, but in Europe there was.

In Europe, then there were wars of coalitions with Napoleon, they seriously came to Russia only in 1812.