From Victory to Peace: Russian Diplomacy after Napoleon

Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter

Open Access Published by Cornell University Press 2023

From Victory to Peace

Russian Diplomacy after Napoleon

Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter
Funded by: Sustainable History Monograph Pilot / Mellon Foundation

In the series NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501756498

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About this book

In From Victory to Peace, Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter brings the Russian perspective to a critical moment in European political history.

This history of Russian diplomatic thought in the years after the Congress of Vienna concerns a time when Russia and Emperor Alexander I were fully integrated into European society and politics. Wirtschafter looks at how Russia's statesmen who served Alexander I across Europe, in South America, and in Constantinople represented the Russian monarch's foreign policy and sought to act in concert with the allies.

Based on archival and published sources—diplomatic communications, conference protocols, personal letters, treaty agreements, and the periodical press—this book illustrates how Russia's policymakers and diplomats responded to events on the ground as the process of implementing peace unfolded.

Thanks to generous funding from the Sustainable History Monograph Pilot and the Mellon Foundation the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other Open Access repositories.

Author / Editor information

Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter is Emeritus Professor of History at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She is author of Religion and Enlightenment in Catherinian Russia, Russia's Age of Serfdom 1649–1861, The Play of Ideas in Russian Enlightenment Theater, Social Identity in Imperial Russia, Structures of Society, and From Serf to Russian Soldier.

Reviews

Richard Wortman, Columbia University, author of Scenarios of Power:

This work is welcome, bringing intellectual history back into the understanding of a diplomatic scene and foregrounding the ideas that as Wirtschafter shows animate the major figures in the international restoration. The scholarship is broad and impeccable, comprising numerous sources from Russian and European archives as well as many published sources on the period.

Janet Hartley, London School of Economics & Political Science, author of The Volga:

Based on extensive research in Russian archives, this book makes a significant contribution to scholarship on Russian foreign relations in the period 1815–23. It fills a significant gap and helps to give a more balanced view of European diplomacy in the decade after the Napoleonic Wars.

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	i
Contents Open Access Download PDF	ix
Preface Open Access Download PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Open Access Download PDF	xv
Abbreviations Open Access Download PDF	xvii
Note on Dating Open Access Download PDF	xix
Introduction. Russia as a Great Power in Europe Open Access Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Pacification and Peace (1815-17) Open Access Download PDF	20
Chapter 2. Completion of the General Alliance (1817-20) Open Access Download PDF	52
Chapter 3. Alliance Unity and Intervention in Naples (1820-21) Open Access Download PDF	88
Chapter 4. To Act in Concert (1821-22) Open Access Download PDF	132
Chapter 5. Spain and the European System (1820-23) Open Access Download PDF	166
Conclusion Russia’s European Diplomacy Open Access Download PDF	197
Appendix. Biographies of Diplomats Open Access Download PDF	209
Notes Open Access Download PDF	217
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	275

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 342
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 3
- Other: 3 maps
Keywords: Russian victory over napoleon; Russian contribution to the congress of vienna; foreign policy of emperor Alexander I; Napoleon and Alexander I; Russia and the European political system

eBook

Published: December 15, 2020
ISBN: 9781501756498