STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1805, sig. 109-5/33 (damaged)

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- 7 53 or by the confiscations in 1634 had come into the country and 3l % had settled since the end of the Thirty Years' War, i.e. between l648 and 1750 in Bohemia. This included about 5 & Reichs-ürsten. It is remarkable that the Schwarzenbergs belong to the sexes of the second group, which had only bought in Bohemia since the end of the Thirty Years' War. In comparison with this changed composition and the different origins, the uniting moments prevail: the reference to the continuation of imperial grace and the likeness of the denominational ideological orientation. The nobility's gaze is now directed primarily at the dynasty. The common Catholic denomination in connection with the baroque culture fax of the counter-reformation thus creates in short Z&sg a closed, newly embossed in (probably homogeneous nobility bodies. Compared with the French development, however, it remains decisively connected with the country. The territorial border fences of Bohemia, as a political body of its own, are becoming ever lower in 1620 against the rest of the Habsburg countries, but they remain until Maria Theresia, and the native nobility, who always feels as a representative of the country, has the first entitlement to the high state offices. The fact that this "representative of the country" was originally foreign to the country does not change the fact that it was a matter of taking over the new forms of cultural and civilization, such as the European aristocracy in general in these times - 8