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

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- 16 - 12 Bohemian Landtag, where the large landowners gave Kurie the decisive influence. tf VI. If the question of the national affiliation of the Bohemian nobility is now posed, then one faces peculiar difficulties. Pass with the middle of the Li. Century a disdained Kendwrg turn to the monarchy. took place, xi has already been mentioned. This happened with all further emphasis of the Czech nobility rights and with respect to the Czech national interests. And dooh there was a great deal of individual opportunities in the relationship between Czech folklore, state wealth and unpolitic German cultural awareness. Accordingly, the attitude of the nobility in the incipient death struggle of the monarchy,&re ldi@ Princes Friedrich Schwarzenberg and Friedrich Lobkowitz had already more or less joined the stand of the Czech deputies in May. And yet it was a descendant of the leader of the state-law kartki movement, Heinrich Clam-Martinitz, who, in the manor house, held the funeral lamentation to the old Austria and mourned its end as the end of "what we have loved with every pulse of our heart from youth on." With the special strenuous endeavours first, the special structure of the country and then the state parliament constitution in the l9. It is probably due to the fact that the German-minded Bohemian aristocracy as such could not appear in a cotporative way. The special social position in this particular layer has reduced the exclusivity of the bonds demanded by modern mationalism and - 17