LE RAGIONI DELLA RUSSIA. L’INVASIONE DEI PRINCIPATI DANUBIANI SPIEGATA ALL’INVIATO STRAORDINARIO DEL RE DI SARDEGNA A SAN PIETROBURGO (1806)
Russia’s Reasons: The Invasion of the Danubian Principalities Explained to the Envoy Extraordinary of the King of Sardinia in Saint Petersburg (1806)

Summary/Abstract: This article explores the reasons why, in 1806, Russia invaded the Danubian Principalities through a particular document: a note that the Russian foreign minister, Andreas Eberhard von Budberg, addressed to the extraordinary Sardinian envoy in Saint Petersburg, Count Joseph de Maistre. This document, conserved in Turin and transcribed in the appendix, is analyzed and commented in the light of both the tensions among Russia, France, and Turkey, and the diplomatic relations between the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Tsarist Empire: countries far from each other from a geographical point of view, but whose interests converged in containing the ambitions of Napoleonic France.

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