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

NOTE ON DATES AND TRANSLITERATION

All dates referring to events in Russia are given according to the
Julian calendar (in force in Russia until 1918), which lags behind the
Gregorian by twelve days in the 19th century and by eleven in the 18th.
Russian words, names, and tides have been transliterated on the
basis of current spelling and according to the system in use at the
Widener Library of Harvard University, with a few minor diacritical
simplifications. Names commonly found in English publications have
been spelled in the manner that tradition has imposed, unless they
are part of a Russian title.
The following abbreviations occur commonly in the notes and
bibliographies:
Chteniia

PSZ

Sbornik IRIO

St. Pbg.

Chteniia v Moskovskom obshchestve istorii i drevnostei

rossiiskikh pri moskovskom universitete (Moscow 1846-

1918)

Polnoe Sobranie Zakonov Rossiiskoi Imperii, 1st series

(St. Petersburg 1830).

Sbornik Imperatorskogo russkogo istoricheskogo ob-

shchestva (St. Petersburg 1867-1916).

Saint-Petersburg.