historique et religieux (Paris and Strasburg, 1845); Journal des debats, 23 Oct. 1842.
27
The Nuns of Minsk: Narrative of Makrena Mieczystawska, Abbess of the Basilian Convent of Minsk; The History of a Seven Years’ Persecution Suffered for the Faith, by Her and Her Nuns (London, 1846), pp. 1–16; Hansard, HL Deb. 9 Mar. 1846, vol. 84, p. 768; M. Cadot, La Russie dans la vie intellectuelle francaise, 1839–1856 (Paris, 1967), p. 464.
28
[Count] V. Krasinski, Is the Power of Russia to be Reduced or Increased by the Present War? The Polish Question and Panslavism (London, 1855), p. 4.
29
Marquis de Custine, Russia, 3 vols. (London, 1844), vol. 3, pp. 21, 353; G. Kennan, The Marquis de Custine and His Russia in 1839 (London, 1971).
30
Cadot, La Russie dans la vie intellectuelle francaise, p. 471.
31
S. Pavlowitch, Anglo-Russian Rivalry in Serbia, 1837–39 (Paris, 1961).
32
N. Tsimbaev, Slaviano fil’stvo: Iz istorii russkoi obshchestvennopoliticheskoi mysli XIX veka (Moscow, 1986), p. 36.
33
A. Bitis, Russia and the Eastern Question: Army, Government and Society, 1815– 1833 (Oxford, 2006), pp. 93–7.
34
N. Riasanovsky, Nicholas I and Official Nationality in Russia 1825–1855 (Berkeley, 1959), p. 152.
35
Ibid., p. 166.
36
P. Merimee, Correspondence generale, 18 vols. (Paris, 1941–65), vol. 5, p. 420; Cadot, La Russie dans la vie intellectuelle francaise, p. 516; L. Namier, 1848: The Revolution of the Intellectuals (Oxford, 1946), pp. 40–42.
37
Cadot, La Russie dans la vie intellectuelle francaise, p. 468.
38
R. Florescu, The Struggle against Russia in the Romanian Principalities 1821–1854 (Monachii, 1962), chaps. 7 and 8.
39
FO 195/321, Colquhoun to Palmerston, 16 Aug. 1848.
40
FO 195/332, Colquhoun to Stratford Canning, 2 July 1849.
41
Florescu, Struggle against Russia, pp. 217–18.
42
D. Goldfrank, The Origins of the Crimean War (London, 1995), pp. 68– 71.
CHAPTER 4. THE END OF PEACE IN EUROPE
1
On British naval defence against France, see A. Lambert, The Crimean War: British Grand Strategy, 1853–56 (Manchester, 1990), pp. 25–7.
2
RA VIC/MAIN/QVJ/1855, 16 Apr.
3
Memoires du duc De Persigny (Paris, 1896), p. 212.
4
A. J. P. Taylor, The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918 (Oxford, 1955), p. 49.
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