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Chapter Three 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 For such a major figure, Alexander I has been neglected by historians; the most important biography remains N. K. Shil’der, Imperator Aleksandr I: ego zhizn’ i tsarstvovanie (The Emperor Alexander I: his Life and Reign) (4 vols, St Petersburg, 1897–8). Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich, L’Empereur Alexandre Ier: Essai d’Etude Historique (2 vols, St Petersburg, 1912) is also significant. There are two modern popular biographies: A. Palmer, Alexander I: Tsar of War and Peace (London, 1974), and H. Troyat, Alexandre Ier: le Sphinx du Nord (Paris, 1980; English translation by J. Pinkham as Alexander of Russia: Napoleon’s Conqueror, London, 1984). There is also a good short study, J. M. Hartley, Alexander I (London, 1994). On the Jewish Statute of 1804 see J. D. Klier, Russia Gathers her Jews: The Origins of the ‘Jewish Question’ in Russia, 1772–1825 (DeKalb, Illinois, 1986), pp.116–43. F. Ley, Alexandre 1er et sa Sainte-Alliance (1811–1825), avec des documents inédits (Paris, 1975), pp.52–3. F. Ley, Mme de Krüdener et son temps, 1764–1824 (Paris, 1961), p.298; Hartley, Alexander I, pp.116–17. The best biography of Mme von Krüdener is Ley, Mme de Krüdener, which draws on important archives in private hands. On Golitsyn as Alexander’s confidant, see Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich, L’Empereur Alexandre Ier, vol.1, p.173. For Castlereagh’s attitude see J. W. Derry, Castlereagh (London, 1976), pp.186–8; for the argument that the alliance was a hypocritical ploy see, among others, H.-H. Pirenne, La Sainte-Alliance:Organisation Européene de la Paix Mondiale (2 vols, Neuchatel, 1946–9). F. Ley, Alexandre Ier et sa Sainte-Alliance (Paris, 1975), p.217. Ibid, p.176. Rev. R. Pinkerton to Rev. Dr Steinkopff, 20 April (old style) 122
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10 11 12 1817, published in A Letter Addressed to the Right Reverend the Bishop of St David’s, Joint Patron of the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, by the Rev Lewis Way, MA (second edition, Dublin and London, 1820), p.63. Rev. W. T. Gidney, The History of the London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews, from 1809 to 1908 (London, 1908), p.58. A. M. W. Stirling, The Ways of Yesterday, Being chronicles of the Way family, 1307–1885 (London, 1830), pp.151–4. Ibid., p.156. Chapter Four 1 2 3 4 5 D. J. Goldberg and J. D. Rayner, The Jewish People: Their History and Their Religion (London, 1987), 1989 edition, pp.132–3. Important modern works that cover the Jews in Europe in this period are D. Vital, A People Apart: The Jews in Europe, 1789–1939 (Oxford, 1999); A. Elon, The Pity of it all: A History of the Jews in Germany, 1743–1933 (London, 2002); A. Eisenbach, The Emancipation of the Jews in Poland,1780–1870 (Oxford, 1991); J. D. Klier, Russia Gathers her Jews: The Origins of the ‘Jewish Question’ in Russia, 1772–1825 (DeKalb, Ill., 1986); H. M. Sachar, The Course of Modern Jewish History (New York, 1958, 1977). Sachar, The Course of Modern Jewish History (1977 edition), p.66. Vital, A People Apart, pp.61–2; Sachar, The Course of Modern Jewish History, pp.100–3. L. Way, Mémoires sur l’Etat des Israélites, Dédiés et Présentés à Leurs Majestés Impériales et Royales, Réunies au Congrès d’Aix-la-Chapelle (Paris, 1819), p.63 (authors’ translation). A Letter Addressed to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of St David’s, Joint Patron of the London Society for Promoting Christianity among the Jews, by the Rev Lewis Way, MA (Second edition, Dublin and London, 1820), p.31. 123

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For such a major figure, Alexander I has been neglected by historians; the most important biography remains N. K. Shil’der, Imperator Aleksandr I: ego zhizn’ i tsarstvovanie (The Emperor Alexander I: his Life and Reign) (4 vols, St Petersburg, 1897–8). Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich, L’Empereur Alexandre Ier: Essai d’Etude Historique (2 vols, St Petersburg, 1912) is also significant. There are two modern popular biographies: A. Palmer, Alexander I: Tsar of War and Peace (London, 1974), and H. Troyat, Alexandre Ier: le Sphinx du Nord (Paris, 1980; English translation by J. Pinkham as Alexander of Russia: Napoleon’s Conqueror, London, 1984). There is also a good short study, J. M. Hartley, Alexander I (London, 1994). On the Jewish Statute of 1804 see J. D. Klier, Russia Gathers her Jews: The Origins of the ‘Jewish Question’ in Russia, 1772–1825 (DeKalb, Illinois, 1986), pp.116–43. F. Ley, Alexandre 1er et sa Sainte-Alliance (1811–1825), avec des documents inédits (Paris, 1975), pp.52–3. F. Ley, Mme de Krüdener et son temps, 1764–1824 (Paris, 1961), p.298; Hartley, Alexander I, pp.116–17. The best biography of Mme von Krüdener is Ley, Mme de Krüdener, which draws on important archives in private hands. On Golitsyn as Alexander’s confidant, see Grand Duke Nikolai Mikhailovich, L’Empereur Alexandre Ier, vol.1, p.173. For Castlereagh’s attitude see J. W. Derry, Castlereagh (London, 1976), pp.186–8; for the argument that the alliance was a hypocritical ploy see, among others, H.-H. Pirenne, La Sainte-Alliance:Organisation Européene de la Paix Mondiale (2 vols, Neuchatel, 1946–9). F. Ley, Alexandre Ier et sa Sainte-Alliance (Paris, 1975), p.217. Ibid, p.176. Rev. R. Pinkerton to Rev. Dr Steinkopff, 20 April (old style)

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