IXtext of Speransky's earliest memoranda, which analyses and spells out in
some detail the arguments and circumstances of Speransky's first political
ideas and plans.
The only monograph on the domestic history of Russia in Speransky
is time to have appeared since my book went to press first: A. V. Pred-
techenskii, Ocherki obshchestvenno-politicheskoi istorii Rossii v pervoi
chetverty XIX veka, Moscow-Leningrad 1957.