On the same aspect of Napoleonic wars, Eugen Sokolov made great work in Russian archives, convincingly demonstrating that War of Third coalition was decided by Alexandre II, much before any subsidies was arranged with Great Britain, and that british financiary and material help during invasion of Russia arrived very lately, when Napoleon was in full retreat, already repelled by Russian weapons and underpaid soldiers.

I've always been under the impression that the War of the Third Coalition was decisively decided at Austerlitz. At least that is what most of the history books say.

Your segue to 1812 doesn't make much sense; however, I agree with what it says: 1812 was all Russian. British gold was not essential to the Russians until 1813 and their advance on Germany.

By the way, it's Alexander I.