🇷🇺 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗵𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗔𝗿𝗯𝗶𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝟭𝟴𝟮𝟮).

Two centuries ago, Emperor Alexander I of Russia acted as arbitrator in the dispute between the United States and the Great Britain concerning the interpretation of Article I of the Treaty of Ghent of 1814. Among the advisers who assisted the Emperor in this matter were Mikhail Speransky and Count Ioannis Kapodistrias (John Capodistrias).

According to Speransky’s own note, he prepared and transmitted to Kapodistrias a memorandum entitled Mémoire sur l’interprétation de l’article du Traité de Gand.

To date, Speransky’s memorandum has neither been published nor identified in Russian archival collections. It is likely that Kapodistrias took the document with him when he departed from Russia. The present location of the memorandum therefore remains unknown.

A research question arises as to whether any memoirs, published works, or archival collections of Kapodistrias in Greek or French exist that shed light on Speransky’s memorandum and its existence.

If anyone has seen the Speransky’s memorandum or knows something about it, I would be very grateful if you could let me know.

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