English Translation

67 - 64 - English influence. On February 6, 1802, in a letter to Alexander, he sought to win over the Black Sea for the reception of the immediate Russian-French trade. "The kingdom of Your Majesty and France would gain much advantage if the direct trade between our Mediterranean ports and Russia were opened over the black sea. From Marseille, we could directly lead the products of our colonies and industries to the Black Sea ports, but we could obtain grain, wood and other goods, which were easily sent to the great Black Sea castle, he commissioned: "Parlez de Catheri- ne II comme d'une princesse qui avait prévu la chute de l'empire turc et qui aavait senti qu'il n'y aurait de prospé- rité pour le commerce russia que lorsqu'ile se ferait par le Midi.2) Alexander was very much taken by this plan. In the Russian-French and French-Turkish agreements of 1880l and 1802, the passage into the Black Sea is opened to the French ships.3) Together, the great power of the European East and those of the West took steps in the som- mer 1802 to reorganize German things. In December 1802 Napoleon urged the Russian envoy, Count Morkov, to re-establish the empire by Emperor Paul I. Death aborted enterprises against England: a great Russian train against India, "in order to avoid the predatory encroachment there, and already in 1802 there exists at the court an "English party", which was also called "war party", at the head of which stood the most influential "young friends" of the tsar in the first years of the new government: Stroganov, Prince Adam Czartoryski and Kotschube,j. They drew Alexander's attention to the dubious acts of Napoleon, which in contradiction 1) In M.N.Pokrovskij: Diplomatija i vojny carskoj Rossii v 19 stoletii, Moskva 1923, 5.5. 2) A.Vandal: Napoléon et Alexandre I, Bd 1, Paris (l890), p. 5. 3) Th.Schiemann: History of Russia under Emperor Nikolaus I. Bd 1 (Berlin l904) p.263 and anm.4. 4)Stählin 3p.88.