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

PLANS OF REFORM 169 Mikhailowitch, Les relatiOTIs diplomatiques de la Russie et de la France d'apres les rapports des ambassadeu ...

CHAPTER VI DISGRACE AND EXILE Official duties and administrative projects absorbed Speransky's attention and energy so much that ...

DISGRACE AND EXILE 171 Alexander's reign was, perhaps, much simpler than most contemporaries and subsequent historians have thou ...

172 DISGRACE AND EXILE On the surface, Moscow's Society before 1812 appeared to live only for pleasure, in a ceaseless successio ...

DISGRACE AND EXILE 173 policy of friendship with France, and more particularly against Spe- ransky who was believed to be the mo ...

174 DISGRACE AND EXILE Russia's religious life. If not stopped immediately, they would end by dissolving the ethical and, later, ...

DISGRACE AND EXILE 175 the Moscow group had received powerful assistance from another quarter. The Moscow "Fronde" and Rostopchi ...

176 DISGRACE AND EXILE her sonees in Tver', the Grand Duchess discovered the similarity between Karamzin's political criticism a ...

DISGRACE AND EXILE 177 laws and administrative organizations become necessary, they ought to be derived from past Russian tradit ...

178 DISGRACE AND EXILE have all kinds of other learning to be a loyal and good servant of the state. Such knowledge, argued Kara ...

DISGRACE AND EXILE 179 was the constant object of his mother's acrimonious reprimands and advice, so much so that his patience a ...

180 DISGRACE AND EXILE its belief in reason and science. De Maistre did not tire of repeating to his Russian friends - of whom h ...

DISGRACE AND EXILE^181 Sardinian Ambassador were very similar indeed to those of the Moscow nobility. There is no certain proof ...

182 DISGRACE AND EXILE of the Grand Duchy. He therefore deeply resented the fact that Speransky had become the Secretary of Stat ...

DISGRACE AND EXILE 183 indignantly refused to participate in the plot. But he made the mistake of not reporting the matter to th ...

184 DISGRACE AND EXILE Russia. On the face of it, the substantial police file on the State Secretary looked quite impressive and ...

DISGRACE AND EXILE 185 had failed to make friends even among those who approved his political principles and the pro-French orie ...

186 DISGRACE AND EXILE so often in 1801, 1807 and was going to do it in 1815, 1820. Even when accompanied by Karamzin's dark hin ...

DISGRACE AND EXILE 187 is true that in most instances the Emperor did not visualize in advance the implications of his wishes an ...

188 DISGRACE AND EXILE Alexander's return from an inspection of Russian border fortresses. By themselves, of course, such remark ...