Digital Library
The documents digitised by the Fondation Napoléon (listed here) are full searchable, and any images can be viewed using the high resolution zoom feature.
The documents digitised by the Fondation Napoléon (listed here) are full searchable, and any images can be viewed using the high resolution zoom feature.
A collection of official and private documents tracing diplomatic exchanges between France and Russia leading up to the 1812 campaign. The five volumes trace this erratic relationship between 1808 and 1812. They are made up of reports sent from St Petersburg by French ambassadors Caulaincourt and Lauriston, to Napoleon and to Champagny, the foreign minister, as well as from reports sent from Paris by Prince Alexandre Kourakine, the Russian ambassador, to Tsar Alexander I, and to the count Chanceller Nicolas Romantzoff. The documents also include instructions given to the ambassadors sent by their respective ministers. The personal letters of Prince Kourakine to Empress Maria Feodorovna and the letters written by Count Nesselrode, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to Spéransky, the Russian lawyer and politician, complete the official documents.