STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1798, sig. 109-5/26

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51 - 48 - negotiations ready to pay aid to the Russians against France, who, instead of the troops required by England, want to put only in squadrons of l2 liner ships and 6 frigates. Catherine's superior policy has managed to eliminate the Anglo-Saxon danger and exploit the temporary weakness of England and its determination in the non-European locations to increase its empire and the power of the Russian state in Europe and Asia. On the other hand, however, the Russian armament of l79l shows that England is not prepared in the long term to take on power losses without contradiction. The coming great conflict is clearly evident at the end of the 18th century. "It was only in the struggle with France of the revolution and Napoleon that Russian power came into the Central European world, and only in this new development that English politics under the leadership of Castlereagh at the Congress of Vienna took the firm position of struggle against Russia - while at the same time in South-Eastern Europe and in the Near East an English-Russian gesture arose, which soon extended to Asia and from there reflected even more strongly on the Europe dominated by Russia since the collapse of Poland."2) 5. Clarification of the fronts 1) Paul I. ( 1796 - 1801 ) The death of Empress Catherine II also interrupts the negotiations between Russia and England on a joint venture against France. Paul I emphasizes in the communication 1) Alcksandrenko 1, pp.72-73 and S.72 Note 2. 2) Gerhard S.320-321.