Michael Speransky. Statesman of Imperial Russia, 1772–1839 - Marc Raeff

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MICHAEL SPERANSKY STATESMAN OF IMPERIAL RUSSIA 1772- by MARC RAEFF Second revised edition • MARTINUS NIJHOFF - THE HAGUE 1969 ...

ISBN-13: 978-90-247-0455-2 e-ISBN-13: 978-94-011-7495- DOl: 10.1007/978-94-011-7495- © 1957 and 1969 by Martinus Nijhoff, The Ha ...

INTRODUCTION "An autocracy tempered by assassination", clever foreigners used to say about the Russian empire in the 18th and 19 ...

VI modem, European framework. But it took almost a century for this skeleton to grow a body and to become conscious of its funct ...

VII within the framework of the autocracy. In this sense, he is one of the major figures in the domestic history of 19th century ...

VIII and epistolary material from the reigns of Alexander I and Nicholas I was accumulated, helping the historian to a better un ...

IX text of Speransky's earliest memoranda, which analyses and spells out in some detail the arguments and circumstances of Spera ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS It is an author's pleasant obligation to acknowledge the help and advice received in the course of a research wh ...

NOTE ON DATES AND TRANSLITERATION All dates referring to events in Russia are given according to the Julian calendar (in force i ...

CONTENTS Introduction V Acknowledgments X I. The Beginnings 1 The "Constitutionalism" of Emperor Alexander I 29 III. Administra ...

CHAPTER. I THE BEGINNINGS As so often happens with illustrious men who have risen from the lower classes, little is known of the ...

2 THE BEGINNINGS The boy's childhood passed quite uneventfully. The records that have been preserved, indicate that he was a hea ...

THE BEGINNINGS^3 shrines. She led a rigorously ascetic life, ate only a little of the simplest and coarsest food, kept all fasts ...

4 THE BEGINNINGS In the second half of the 18th century the Russian clergy and nobility had not yet learned to like education fo ...

THE BEGINNINGS 5 century Russia and the neglect the Church was suffering at the hands of the government. Peter the Great's relig ...

6 THE BEGINNINGS not only poor in quality, but also insufficient in quantity; a gnawing state of "half-hunger" was the ever-pres ...

THE BEGINNINGS 7 for their times - but grinding poverty and social humiliation had demoralized them, had sapped their energy and ...

8 THE BEGINNINGS singled out as an outstanding and one of the most hopeful students. From the very beginning he eagerly looked f ...