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December 21, 2025Istoriya

The Royal Court of France at the End of the Old Regime in Light of Russian Diplomatic Correspondence: Features of Sources

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The article uncovers how Russian diplomatic correspondence reveals critical insights into the French court's relationships and power dynamics.

Key Points

  • This research aims to analyze the features of diplomatic correspondence from Russia to France in the late 18th century.
  • Comparison of reports and dispatches sent by Russian diplomats to St. Petersburg in the 1770s and 1780s.
  • Analysis of texts by diplomats Prince I. S. Baryatinsky, N. K. Khotinsky, and I. M. Simolin.
  • Investigation of both encrypted and unencrypted documents.
  • Describes how diplomatic reports varied between personal opinions and factual reporting.
  • Highlights the ceremonial focus of reports to the empress and the intrigue-focused dispatches.
  • Demonstrates how these documents reveal complexities in the relationships at the French royal court.

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Ludmila Pimenova (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69473b64db9c958d0dfca775https://doi.org/10.18254/s207987840036529-0
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