TALLEYRAND-PERIGORD (Baron de).

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TALLEYRAND-PERIGORD (Baron de).
TALLEYRAND-PERIGORD (Baron de). Journey of M. the Baron de Talleyrand-Périgord, Ambassador of France in Russia, in the governments of Olonetz and Arkhangel. Saint-Petersburg, July 1865. In-folio, purple half-percaline à la Bradel, smooth spine faded and slightly stained. (1) f. ; 79 pp. ; (1) p. bl. Very legible copy of a manuscript, dated July 1865, addressed to Monsieur le Ministre, and explaining that the Baron de Talleyrand-Périgord, French ambassador in St. Petersburg, has just made a trip of several weeks to the North of Russia, accompanied by the author, Mr. Batbedat, attaché de mission, and Mr. Granafs, his private secretary. Baron de Talleyrand-Périgord left St. Petersburg on July 2, 1865, and his first stop was in Petrozavodsk; then he continued to Olonetz, went from Petrozavodsk to the convents of Solovetzkoi, and then to the government of Arkhangel "one of the largest in Russia, which extends from Swedish Lapland to Siberia. "This trip was all the more interesting because it was actually the first time that, not only foreigners like us, but even Russians, followed, in all its extent, the route we were going to take, to go from St. Petersburg to the White Sea, and I will add to Your Excellency the remarks that I will have had the opportunity to make on the countries that we crossed, their inhabitants, their customs and their products and what one is entitled to hope for in the future, today that Russia, following the modification of its internal regime, is in the process of a complete transformation. A Russian passport, on 2 folios, in Russian, German and French, dated September 29, 1865 in St. Petersburg, authorizing Mr. Batbedat, one of the members of the trip, to go to Russia via Berlin and Brussels.
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