{"id":622455,"date":"2012-09-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/?page_id=622455"},"modified":"2012-09-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T00:00:00","slug":"foreign-policy-situation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/welcome-to-the-archives-of-belarus-website\/subject-guides-to-archival-records\/historical-events\/archival-documents-and-materials-7\/belarus-in-the-war-of-1812-2\/on-the-eve-of-the-war\/foreign-policy-situation","title":{"rendered":"Foreign policy situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Foreign policy situation<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"gen_table\">\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td width=\"90%\" valign=\"top\">Convention between Austria and Russia on the First Partition\r\n    of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (extract). <br>\r\n    Saint Petersburg. 1772.<br>\r\n    Photocopy. Printed document. Istoria gosudarstva i prava Rossii v dokumentakh i\r\n    materialakh s drevneishikh vremen do 1930 goda. Minsk, 2005. P. 110-111.<br>\r\n    (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of\r\n    the war of 1812)<\/td>\r\n    <td width=\"10%\" valign=\"top\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.gov.by\/?page_id=650525\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\"\r\n    src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/images\/dunin\/iko3.jpg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\" alt=\"View document\"\r\n    title=\"View document\"><\/a><\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td width=\"90%\" valign=\"top\">Manifesto by the General in Chief Krechetnikov on the\r\n    annexation of lands to Russia by the Second Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian\r\n    Commonwealth (extract). <br>\r\n    Chief&#8217;s camp at Polonne. 1793.<br>\r\n    Photocopy. Printed document. Istoria gosudarstva i prava Rossii v dokumentakh i\r\n    materialakh s drevneishikh vremen do 1930 goda. Minsk, 2005. P. 111-114.<br>\r\n    (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of\r\n    the war of 1812)<br>\r\n    <\/td>\r\n    <td width=\"10%\" valign=\"top\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.gov.by\/?page_id=427530\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\"\r\n    src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/images\/dunin\/iko3.jpg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\"\r\n    alt=\"View document\" title=\"View document\"><\/a><\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td width=\"90%\" valign=\"top\">Convention between Russia, Prussia and Austria on the Third\r\n    Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (extract). <br>\r\n    Saint Petersburg. 1795.<br>\r\n    Photocopy. Printed document. Istoria gosudarstva i prava Rossii v dokumentakh i\r\n    materialakh s drevneishikh vremen do 1930 goda. Minsk, 2005. P. 115-116.<br>\r\n    (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of\r\n    the war of 1812)<\/td>\r\n    <td width=\"10%\" valign=\"top\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.gov.by\/?page_id=857013\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\"\r\n    src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/images\/dunin\/iko3.jpg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\"\r\n    alt=\"View document\" title=\"View document\"><\/a><\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td width=\"90%\" valign=\"top\">Alexander I (1777-1825) \u2013 Russian emperor in 1801-1825,\r\n    liberal reformer at the beginning of his rule, in 1805 organized the Coalition of European\r\n    powers against France, in 1806 signed a piece treaty with France. <br>\r\n    Portrait by Borovikovsky. Photoreproduction. http:\/\/bibliotekar.ru\/<br>\r\n    (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of\r\n    the war of 1812)<\/td>\r\n    <td width=\"10%\" valign=\"top\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.gov.by\/?page_id=687851\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\r\n    border=\"0\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/images\/voyna_1812\/belnitsed\/mimage002n.jpg\" width=\"81\" height=\"120\"\r\n    alt=\"Photoreproduction\" title=\"Photoreproduction\"> <\/a><\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td width=\"90%\" valign=\"top\">Napoleon I Bonaparte (1769-1821) \u2013 Emperor of France from\r\n    1804 to 1815, waged aggressive wars, conquered most of continental Europe in quest for\r\n    world dominance, in 1806 signed a peace treaty with Russia.<br>\r\n    Portrait by Vernet. Photoreproduction. Otechestvennaia voina i russkoe obshchestvo.\r\n    Moscow, 1911. http:\/\/www.1812.ru<br>\r\n    (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of\r\n    the war of 1812)<\/td>\r\n    <td width=\"10%\" valign=\"top\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.gov.by\/?page_id=122631\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\r\n    border=\"0\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/images\/voyna_1812\/belnitsed\/mbook30202.jpg\" width=\"81\" height=\"120\"\r\n    alt=\"Photoreproduction\" title=\"Photoreproduction\"><\/a><\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td width=\"90%\" valign=\"top\">Treaty of an offensive and defensive alliance between Russia\r\n    and France signed as the result of personal negotiations between Alexander I and Napoleon\r\n    I. <br>\r\n    Tilsit. 1807.<br>\r\n    Photocopy. Printed document. Istoria gosudarstva i prava Rossii v dokumentakh i\r\n    materialakh s drevneishikh vremen do 1930 goda. Minsk, 2005. P. 222-224.<br>\r\n    (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of\r\n    the war of 1812)<\/td>\r\n    <td width=\"10%\" valign=\"top\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.gov.by\/?page_id=290365\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\"\r\n    src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/images\/dunin\/iko3.jpg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\"\r\n    alt=\"View document\" title=\"View document\"><\/a><\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td width=\"90%\" valign=\"top\">Letter from Alexander I to his mother Empress Maria\r\n    Feodorovna (excerpt on the neutralization of Napoleon by means of diplomacy). <br>\r\n    September 1808.<br>\r\n    Photocopy. Printed document. V. Sirotkin. Otechestvennaia voina 1812 goda. Moscow, 1988.\r\n    P. 24.<br>\r\n    (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of\r\n    the war of 1812)<\/td>\r\n    <td width=\"10%\" valign=\"top\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.gov.by\/?page_id=109228\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\"\r\n    src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/images\/dunin\/iko3.jpg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\"\r\n    alt=\"View document\" title=\"View document\"><\/a><\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td width=\"90%\" valign=\"top\">Report from the Foreign Minister of France, Duke of Cadore\r\n    J.B. Champagny to the Emperor Napoleon of France entitled &#8220;An opinion on the affairs\r\n    on the continent and a rapproachment between Russia and Great Britain&#8221; (excerpt).<br>\r\n    March 1810.<br>\r\n    Photocopy. Printed document. V. Sirotkin. Otechestvennaia voina 1812 goda. Moscow, 1988.\r\n    P. 25.<br>\r\n    (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of\r\n    the war of 1812)<\/td>\r\n    <td width=\"10%\" valign=\"top\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.gov.by\/?page_id=244799\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\"\r\n    src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/images\/dunin\/iko3.jpg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\"\r\n    alt=\"View document\" title=\"View document\"><\/a><\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td width=\"90%\" valign=\"top\">Account of making forged banknotes in Paris in 1810 narrated\r\n    by the engraver Lal to the king of Naples Joseph Bonaparte. <br>\r\n    Photocopy. Printed document. Otechestvennaia voina 1812 g. Sb. dok. i materialov.\r\n    Leningrad, Moscow, 1941. P. 12-13.<br>\r\n    (BGAMLI, library, \u2116 3002)<\/td>\r\n    <td width=\"10%\" valign=\"top\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.gov.by\/?page_id=584744\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\"\r\n    src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/images\/dunin\/iko3.jpg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\"\r\n    alt=\"View document\" title=\"View document\"><\/a><\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td width=\"90%\" valign=\"top\">A false Russian banknote with the wide use of which in the\r\n    occupied provinces Napoleon figured to undermine Russia&#8217;s finances. <br>\r\n    Photocopy. Printed document. V. Sirotkin. Otechestvennaia voina 1812 goda. Moscow, 1988.\r\n    P. 35.<br>\r\n    (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of\r\n    the war of 1812)<\/td>\r\n    <td width=\"10%\" valign=\"top\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.gov.by\/?page_id=949628\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\"\r\n    src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/images\/dunin\/iko3.jpg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\"\r\n    alt=\"View document\" title=\"View document\"><\/a><\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td width=\"90%\" valign=\"top\">C.M. Talleyrand (1754-1838) \u2013 Foreign Minister of France in\r\n    1797-1807, opponent of the war against Russia, her paid secret informer who handed over to\r\n    Alexander I a number of confidential documents, particularly in April 1810 the copies of\r\n    Champagny&#8217;s report to Napoleon and the Franco-Austrian agreement of 1812.\u00a0\u00a0 <br>\r\n    Portrait. Photoreproduction. Library of Internet Project &#8220;1812 year&#8221;.\r\n    http:\/\/www.1812.ru\/<br>\r\n    (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of\r\n    the war of 1812)<\/td>\r\n    <td width=\"10%\" valign=\"top\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.gov.by\/?page_id=319973\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\r\n    border=\"0\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/images\/voyna_1812\/belnitsed\/mpic02.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"120\"\r\n    alt=\"Photoreproduction\" title=\"Photoreproduction\"><\/a><\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td width=\"90%\" valign=\"top\">M.B. Barclay de Tolly (1761-1818) \u2013 General of Infantry, in\r\n    1810-1812 Russian Minister of War, in February-April 1810 he designed a defensive plan in\r\n    the event of war against Napoleon, with the three variants of warfare according to the\r\n    direction of enemy strike (Report &#8220;The Defence of Russia&#8217;s Western Frontiers&#8221;).<br>\r\n    Portrait by Dawe. Photoreproduction. Otechestvennaia voina 1812 g. Sb. dok. i materialov.\r\n    Leningrad, Moscow, 1941.<br>\r\n    (BGAMLI, library, \u2116 3002)<\/td>\r\n    <td width=\"10%\" valign=\"top\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.gov.by\/?page_id=552142\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\r\n    border=\"0\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/images\/voyna_1812\/bgamli\/msc0011.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"120\"\r\n    alt=\"Photoreproduction\" title=\"Photoreproduction\"><\/a><\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td width=\"90%\" valign=\"top\">Conversation between Alexander I and the French ambassador at\r\n    St. Petersburg A. de Caulaincourt (excerpt on the possible outcome of events in case of\r\n    war with Napoleon). <br>\r\n    May 1811. <br>\r\n    Photocopy. Printed document. V. Sirotkin. Otechestvennaia voina 1812 goda. Moscow, 1988.\r\n    P. 26.<br>\r\n    (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of\r\n    the war of 1812)<\/td>\r\n    <td width=\"10%\" valign=\"top\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.gov.by\/?page_id=700705\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\"\r\n    src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/images\/dunin\/iko3.jpg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\"\r\n    alt=\"View document\" title=\"View document\"><\/a><\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td width=\"90%\" valign=\"top\">Conversation between Alexander I and the French ambassador at\r\n    St. Petersburg A. de Caulaincourt (excerpt on the negative sides of Russia&#8217;s foreign\r\n    policy).<br>\r\n    Paris. June 1811. <br>\r\n    Photocopy. Printed document. V. Sirotkin. Otechestvennaia voina 1812 goda. Moscow, 1988.\r\n    P. 26.<br>\r\n    (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of\r\n    the war of 1812)<\/td>\r\n    <td width=\"10%\" valign=\"top\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.gov.by\/?page_id=792469\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\"\r\n    src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/images\/dunin\/iko3.jpg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\"\r\n    alt=\"View document\" title=\"View document\"><\/a><\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td width=\"90%\" valign=\"top\">Report by A.I. Chernyshev, adjutant to Alexander I,\r\n    military\u00a0 attache and secret agent of Russia in France dispatched from Paris to the\r\n    Foreign Minister of Russia N.P. Rumyantsev regarding Napoleon&#8217;s military preparations\r\n    (excerpt). <br>\r\n    August 1811.<br>\r\n    Photocopy. Printed document. Otechestvennaia voina 1812 g. Sb. dok. i materialov.\r\n    Leningrad, Moscow, 1941. P. 1-2.<br>\r\n    (BGAMLI, library, \u2116 3002)<\/td>\r\n    <td width=\"10%\" valign=\"top\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.gov.by\/?page_id=824356\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\"\r\n    src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/images\/dunin\/iko3.jpg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\"\r\n    alt=\"View document\" title=\"View document\"><\/a><\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td width=\"90%\" valign=\"top\">K.V. Nesselrode (1789-1862) \u2013\u00a0 finance councillor at\r\n    the Russian ambassy to France from March 1810, political resident of Alexander I, whose\r\n    intelligence activity allowed to uncover many details of Napoleon&#8217;s preparation for the\r\n    1812 campaign, foreign minister under Nicholas I. <br>\r\n    Portrait by Isabey. Photoreproduction. Otechestvennaia voina i russkoe obshchestvo\r\n    1812-1912. Moscow, 1911. http:\/\/www.1812.ru\/<br>\r\n    (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of\r\n    the war of 1812)<\/td>\r\n    <td width=\"10%\" valign=\"top\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.gov.by\/?page_id=957401\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"\r\n    border=\"0\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/images\/voyna_1812\/belnitsed\/mbook20116.jpg\" width=\"85\" height=\"120\"\r\n    alt=\"Photoreproduction\" title=\"Photoreproduction\"><\/a><\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td width=\"90%\" valign=\"top\">Memorandum by the adviser to Alexander I M.M. Speransky\r\n    &#8220;On the probabilities of war with France after the treaty of Tilsit&#8221; (excerpt). <br>\r\n    Late December 1811 \u2013 early January 1812.<br>\r\n    Photocopy. Printed document. V. Sirotkin. Otechestvennaia voina 1812 goda. Moscow, 1988.\r\n    P. 25.<br>\r\n    (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of\r\n    the war of 1812)<\/td>\r\n    <td width=\"10%\" valign=\"top\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.gov.by\/?page_id=983686\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\"\r\n    src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/images\/dunin\/iko3.jpg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\"\r\n    alt=\"View document\" title=\"View document\"><\/a><\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td width=\"90%\" valign=\"top\">Letter from the Russian ambassador to Austria G.O.\r\n    Stackelberg to the commander of the Russian 2nd Western Army P.I. Bagration concerning\r\n    Napoleon&#8217;s spies sent to Russia. <br>\r\n    May 1812. <br>\r\n    Photocopy. Printed document. Otechestvennaia voina 1812 g. Sb. dok. i materialov.\r\n    Leningrad, Moscow, 1941. P. 7-8.<br>\r\n    (BGAMLI, library, \u2116 3002)<\/td>\r\n    <td width=\"10%\" valign=\"top\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.gov.by\/?page_id=488888\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\"\r\n    src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/images\/dunin\/iko3.jpg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\"\r\n    alt=\"View document\" title=\"View document\"><\/a><\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n  <tr>\r\n    <td width=\"90%\" valign=\"top\">Diary of a contemporary of the events A. Chicherin (excerpt\r\n    on the causes of the impending war with France). <br>\r\n    Photocopy. Printed document. V. Sirotkin. Otechestvennaia voina 1812 goda. Moscow, 1988.\r\n    P. 26.<br>\r\n    (BelNITsED, collection of electronic copies of documents and materials on the history of\r\n    the war of 1812)<\/td>\r\n    <td width=\"10%\" valign=\"top\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/archives.gov.by\/?page_id=654480\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\"\r\n    src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/images\/dunin\/iko3.jpg\" width=\"25\" height=\"25\"\r\n    alt=\"View document\" title=\"View document\"><\/a><\/td>\r\n  <\/tr>\r\n<\/table>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foreign policy situation Convention between Austria and Russia on the First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (extract). Saint Petersburg. 1772. Photocopy. Printed document. 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