English Translation

S9 - 62 - dared the leader of the conspiracy against Paul, Count Pahlen, who was General Bennigsen, who became the Hanoverian subject of the English king. To him Pahlen had intended the leading role in the execution. 2. The time of Alexander I until the Vienna Congress 1801-1815 Alexander I. Politics towards England had already taken place with the events that had led to his accession to the throne. England had in the most skilful way failed to exploit the Russian nobility for the overthrow of the ruler Paul I, who became dangerous to the English, and to remain in the background. For the Russian aristocracy, the economic advantage of good relations with England was combined with the uncertainty which the completely unpredictable nature of the insane emperor brought to the fate of each of the subjects. In the export trade to England, the country was inconceivably able to make Russian society dependent on English imports. It was part of the good tone, fabrics and other objects of use of English origin. No less, in the English-speaking sense, the social relations that had been established by the diplomatic representatives of England in Petersburg, which were secretly supplemented and consolidated by the usual bribery of authoritative statesmen. The longtime representative of Russia in London, Count Semen Vorontsov, was an avid admirer of English being, if he also did so 1) E.V.Tarle: Inostrannaja politika Rossii v l9 v. i načale 2ó v. in: Enciklopedičeskij slovar' russkogo bibliografičes- kogo institutea Garnet, vol. 36, part 5 (1936) p.2.