"If someone cuts off your arm, no doubt you would shout and cry in paint; last night I was deprived of Speransky and he was my right arm. [...] You will examine [his] papers but you will find nothing; he was not a traitor"
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As quoted in Alexander I: The Tsar Who Defeated Napoleon (2012) by Marie-Pierre Rey, p. 231
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