Have you no Russian gentlemen among you who are certainly more attached to him than these mercenaries?
Does he imagine that they are fond of him personally?
Let him put Armfeld in command in Finland and I have nothing to say; but to have him about his person, for shame!....

What a superb perspective opened out to the Emperor Alexander at Tilsit, and especially at Erfurt!....

He has spoilt the finest reign Russia ever saw....

How can he admit to his society such men as a Stein, an Armfeld, a Vinzingerode?
Say to the Emperor Alexander, that as he gathers around him my personal enemies it means a desire to insult me personally, and, consequently, that I must do the same to him.

I will drive all his Baden, Wurtemburg, and Weimar relations out of Germany.