Russia and France. XVIII - XX century. Release 8

The issue contains articles and publications of documents from the Russian archives - GARF, RGVIA, RGADA, RGA of the Navy, as well as from the archive of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, revealing unknown pages of relations between Russia and France over the past three hundred years.
The topics of the collection materials are diverse: the institution of the first French consulate in St. Petersburg in 1717, the French national character in the representations of the Russian nobility in the first quarter of the 19th century, the abolition of serfdom in Russia for the reports of French diplomats, the activities of the third branch in France, the French “Slavophile” Abbot F. Portal, the suppression of the uprising in the Russian expeditionary corps in France in 1917, Russian emigration and establishing Soviet-French relations in 1924, notebooks of the USSR ambassador to France S.A. Vinogradov, French Revolution and Political Debats of Perestroika.
For specialists and all those interested in domestic and universal history