ABSTRACT
Napoleon's military and political genius as well as his endless ambition so strongly shook the old structures of Europe in the early years of the nineteenth century that the four victorious powers, England, Russia, Austria and Prussia, tired and at the end of their human and material resources, were actually desirous of peace. It is true that through the resolutions adopted by the Congress of Vienna the four states gained numerous territories, sacrificing the Poles and a divided Italy under the sway of the Habsburgs, and ignoring the national problem in most of the European countries. As known, the Russians defeated the Turks only the following year when Diebich, the new commander-in-chief of the Balkan peninsula troops, crossed the Balkans and occupied Adrianople. On August 24, 1829 in another letter mailed to Petersburg, Diebich was informing about the arrival at the Adrianople camp of Count Pahlen and Count Orlov who were carrying the tzar's instructions.
