Just after the settlement of the Regency question in Prussia, and 
the dismissal of Manteuffel’s ministry, his successors in office 
discovered, among other official papers, a most curious “Memoir 
on Russia,” an extract of which, despite all precautions taken, 
found its way into the hands of some outsiders who consider the 
present moment opportune for the publication of such a State 
paper. 

All the passages literally quoted from the original are indicated 
by quotation marks. Passing over the general considerations on 
Russian history, with which the document opens, we begin with 
what relates to the time of Peter the Great.* 

Written on July 14, 1859 Reproduced from the New-York . 

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‘July 23, 1859; reprinted in the New-York 
Daily Tribune, No. 5703, August 3, 1859 

a In Das Volk Marx introduced the text of the document with the following 
lines: “Under this heading the Urquhartist Free Press publishes a document of so 
great importance for Prussia and Germany that we reprint it in full. In one of our 
next issues we shall deal with the secret strings of the drama whose stage player is 
Bonaparte, but whose manager is Russia. For the present we let The Free Press 
speak.” — Ed. 

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Karl Marx