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Zapiski Historyczne
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2022
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vol. 87
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issue 3
69-100
EN
In the early 1780s, the St. Petersburg court decided to establish a new Russian diplomatic post in Frankfurt am Main; the mission in the German Reich was entrusted to a young diplomat, Nikolai P. Rumyantsev. Attempts to clarify the purpose of establishing a new legation have been made since mid-nineteenth century. Prussian historians wanted to see it as an instrument of support for the Berlin court, Austrian authors, on the other hand, the Viennese Burg. According to Russian historiography, on the other hand, the establishment of a diplomatic post in Frankfurt was to manifest the achievement of a significant position in the Reich by the St. Petersburg court. These judgements were pronounced without considering the primary source: the instructions received by the minister. The article is based precisely on that Russian diplomatic correspondence stored at the Foreign Policy Archive of Imperial Russia in Moscow. An analysis of the instructions sent to Rumyantsev proves that Russian plans for expansion in the Holy Roman Empire, to gain supremacy over the “Third Germany” i.e. the lesser and middle states of the Reich, were but political wishful thinking. The Russian domination in the empire, especially over the lesser states of the Reich, was completely unattainable for the empress. The expansion model tried in Courland, Poland and Sweden did not work in Germany.
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The article deals with the participation of the "state of barons" (Herrenstand-, Freiherrenstand) in the representative assemblies of the German Reich and the Habsburg Hereditary Countries, which collectively constituted the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in the period of the 16th-18th centuries. Similarly, the participation of barons in the offices of the most important bodies has been evaluated including such instances as the Reich Chamber Court, Reichs Court Council, Court Court, and on the other hand, the role played by the barons in the clerical life of the Hereditary Lands. In this way, by combining the two images, we attempt to draw attention to the value of this group, which is difficult to overstate, for the existence of the state and indicate its broad aspirations and involvement in the public life of the state. For such self-realization played a significant role in the directions of the emperors' policy for three centuries, creating a partial supremacy of barons in both central and local offices.
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Artykuł traktuje o partycypacji „stanu baronów” (Herrenstand, Freiherrenstand) w zgromadzeniach reprezentanckich Rzeszy Niemieckiej oraz krajów dziedzicznych Habsburgów od XVI do XVIII w. Dokonano w nim wartościowania udziału baronów w urzędach i najważniejszych gremiach Świętego Cesarstwa Rzymskiego Narodu Niemieckiego, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem pierwszych, najważniejszych urzędów w takich instancjach, jak sąd kameralny Rzeszy, rada nadworna Rzeszy, sąd dworski, a z drugiej strony przedstawiono rolę, jaką odegrali baronowie w życiu urzędniczym ziem dziedzicznych. Starano się w ten sposób, poprzez połączenie obu wątków, zwrócić uwagę na trudną do przecenienia wartość tej grupy dla istnienia państwa oraz wskazać jej szerokie aspiracje i zaangażowanie w życie publiczne. Taka bowiem samorealizacja odegrała niebagatelną rolę w wyznaczaniu kierunków polityki cesarzy, na trzy stulecia, tworząc częściową supremację baronów na urzędach centralnych i lokalnych.
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