Russia and Vatican. Politics and diplomacy. XIX - beginning of the XX century. Book 1. 1825-1870

Attracting wide layers, largely not previously used documentary materials of domestic archives and the secret archive of the Vatican, a holistic, systematic and reliable reconstruction of Russia"s relations with the Vatican in an extremely complex, difficult period, which covered almost a hundred years, is carried out in the work. This allows you to get acquainted often with confusing ups and downs and many little -known or unknown to their pages, and most importantly - to identify and analyze the most important trends in them, the deep causes of changes that have occurred and those factors that influenced their condition, understand the methods, features of the style of diplomats. both sides. The work contains a lot of new material for the thought of domestic political scientists and diplomats over relations between Russia and the Vatican. The chronological framework of the first book is the entry into the throne of Nicholas I in 1825 and the loss of secular power in 1870