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Updated: May 10, 2025
On October twenty-sixth, Lord Leveson-Gower, the English ambassador, received a note from Count Rumianzoff to the effect that twice Russia had taken up arms for England's advantage, and had in vain solicited even such coöperation as would seem to have been in Great Britain's own interest.
The treaty of Schönbrunn was a flagrant violation of the agreement made between Napoleon and Alexander at Erfurt, inasmuch as it materially enlarged the grand duchy of Warsaw and thus menaced Russia with the reconstruction of Poland. "Clearly," said Rumianzoff to Caulaincourt, "you want to be rid of the Russian alliance, and to substitute for it that with the grand duchy."
Alexander's silent steadfastness was, indeed, remarkable. Hitherto in every crisis as, for example, after Austerlitz and Friedland he had yielded. Why was he now so firm? Stein, the Prussian patriot, was at his side; but so was the trusted Rumianzoff, leader of the French party, which was for peace.
As a preliminary to the second personal interview between the two monarchs, suggested at Tilsit, and for which proposals were now renewed from Paris, the two ministers, Caulaincourt and Rumianzoff, finally began to discuss the terms of a partition of Turkey.
Diplomatic Fencing with Russia Caulaincourt and Rumianzoff Plight of the Czar Napoleon and the Papacy The Pope a Prisoner The House of Braganza Partition of Portugal Flight of the Royal Family Junot's Aspirations The Condition of Spain The Court The Crown Prince The Popular Factions Napoleon's Plans Quarrel of Charles and Ferdinand Trial of Ferdinand Invasion of Spain Napoleon and Lucien at Mantua Napoleon and Joseph at Venice Godoy Thwarted The French Armament The Humiliation of Spain Fall of Godoy Abdication of the King.
Tolstoi is not built on the proportions of Tilsit. We could have everything ready, you and I, or perhaps Caulaincourt and Rumianzoff, before March fifteenth, and by May first our troops could be in Asia at the moment when those of your Majesty were in Stockholm.
Talleyrand and the Russian chancellor, Rumianzoff, held protracted conferences, the former, as he confesses in his memoirs, plotting against his master's interests, in order to see that Austria should suffer no harm. Day after day Napoleon and Alexander paced the floor of the great room in the palace which had been fitted as an office, examining details and bringing matters to a conclusion.
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