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Excerpt from The Last King of Poland and His Contemporaries
And beneath and behind everything, ever felt though not always seen, is the hand of the Russian Empress, con trolling and determining the course of events through a succession of singularly well-chosen satraps, such as the martial Repnin, the courtly Volkonsky, the brutal Saldem, the sarcastic Stackelberg, and - most dangerous of them all - the suave and sentimental Sivers. The work of these finished diplomatists was mostly dirty work, and the best of them heartily disliked it; nevertheless they did it, as we shall see, well and thoroughly.
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