English Translation

bt - 76 - remained ineffective against the English money and the English guns and guns. Only with the break of the tsar with Napoleon in year l8l2 a sudden reversal occurs here. 1) The Russian-Turkish war, which was going on from December 30th, to the peace of Bucharest on May 28th, 1981, brought about, in addition to substantial acquisitions of territory, a resumption of Russia's influence on Turkey. Since l8l2, Austria has adopted its Turkic-friendly policy, which from now on became the permanent opponent of the Russians in the Balkans.2) The Turkish-English treaty of January 5th, 19809 had re-implemented the principle that no warship should be allowed to pass through the straits, and thus the exception laid down for Russia in the Treaty of Friendship with Turkey on September 24th, 1985 was lifted. Only in the field of his transcaucasian acquisitions did Russia succeed in the ever-responsive negotiations of Kutuzov against the constantly working English representative Lord Redcliffe, as that Russia secured the possession of the provinces of Grusia, Mingrelia and Schugarel. In Article 6, which stipulated the return of all territories occupied by the Russians, Kutusov had stated that the clause should be inserted, that all conquered places and territories should be returned. When the Turks demanded the return of these three provinces, Russia rejected them, pointing out that they had voluntarily submitted, "It is the first of the long series of defeats that England suffered, where its Asian interests were contrary to the Russians." England had not succeeded in barring Russia's advance over the Caucasus. Alexander soon realized that he was using Napoleon for the benefit of France, just as before from England 1) Pokrovskij p.183-184; Schiemann 1, p.280--28l. 2) For this and for the following Schiemann 1 p.277-282.