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Prince Adam Czartoryski and Napoleonic France, 1801–1805: A Study in Political Attitudes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

W. H. Zawadzki
W. H. Zawadzki
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Wolfson College, Oxford
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The preservation and the consolidation of international peace was the general aim of Emperor Alexander I of Russia in the first year of his reign. The young autocrat, faced with the novelty of international politics and bent on domestic reform, hoped for good relations with all the powers and tried to avoid any serious entanglement in European affairs. Diplomatic relations with Great Britain, which had been severed by the unstable Emperor Paul, were restored in June 1801, and a treaty of friendship was signed with the French Republic in October of the same year. Alexander expressed his readiness to co-operate with Bonaparte, whom he at first much admired, in arranging a general continental pacification and in settling the indemnities for the German princes dispossessed by France's expansion to the Rhine. The only issue that could have marred Franco-Russian relations at die time was Alexander's concern that full inde- pendence be restored to Piedmont and Naples. Nevertheless, the appointment of V. P. Kochubey, an advocate of a passive foreign policy, as head of the College for Foreign Affairs in October 1801, confirmed Alexander's pacific intentions. Yet widun four years Russia was to find herself at war with France as a leading and zealous promoter of a wide European coalition and the champion of a new European order.

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The Historical Journal , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , June 1975 , pp. 245 - 277
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81 Systèms, fo. 92.

82 Cf. ibid. fos. 70–73.

83 Czart. MSS. 5533, fo. 52: A. Czartoryski to A. R. Vorontsov [1803].

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85 Ibid. fo. 92. Czartoryski was encouraged in his ideas on Germany by one of his lesser-known Viennese correspondents, a certain Viscount de Wargemont whom he had known since 1799. Wargemont appealed for an active Russian policy and advocated the establishment of a strong German state on the Rhine and a large Belgo-Dutch state to check French land power. Czart. MSS, 5469, fos. 53–58, 73–76: Wargemont's memoranda, mid-1803 and Sept. 1803.

86 Czart. MSS, 5533, fos. 54–55: A. Czartoryski to A. R. Vorontsov [1803].

87 Czart. MSS, 5533, fos. 55–57: A. Czartoryski to A. R. Vorontsov [1803].

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132 Ibid. fos. 144–50.

133 It took Russia a year to secure alliances with some of the other powers. The Russo-Austrian defensive alliance was signed on 6 Nov. 1804; the Russo-Swedish convention on 14 Jan. 1805; the Anglo-Russian convention on 11 Apr. 1805; the Russo-Neapolitan defensive alliance on 10 Sept. 1805; the Russo-Turkish defensive alliance on 23 Sept. 1805; and the much criticized Russo-Prussian convention only on 3 Nov. 1805.

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