ABSTRACT
The year 1812 was a momentous one for Russia and America. Russia beat back Napoleon's invasion, and the United States went to war with Great Britain. The Federalist Party, had base of power in the more industrialized Northeast, had against going to war with Britain, but the Republican Party, stronghold was in the agrarian South, had begun the war. The Federalists found that praising Russia's victories over Napoleon was a relatively safe way to criticize the Republican administration's aggression against Britain. The Federalist Papers helps to understand both the similarities and the differences between monarchist and democratic principles of government. Born in 1783, Evstaf'ev's ancestors were Don Cossacks, he was a member of the clerical estate. He studied at the Kharkov Ecclesiastical Seminar in 1798, he was sent to London as a churchman for services in the church for the Russian ambassador. The Federalists emerged as a party soon after the creation of the American government in 1789.
