Memoriile contelui Alexandre Langeron. (I) Reflexii istoriografice
Memoirs of Count Alexandre Langeron. (I) Historiographical reflections

Summary/Abstract: Alexandre-Louis Andrault, Comte de Langeron is an extremely interesting character, with a remarkable military and administrative career, being involved, as a senior officer, in most of the Russian campaigns of the late 18th century and the beginning of the next century. His presence in the Romanian Principalities, both during the Russo-Turkish wars and during the period of occupation and involvement in the peace negotiations, gives him the quality of witness, directly or indirectly, of events and places essential for our history, and not only that. From Count Langeron there remained a fairly consistent set of manuscript Memoirs, drawn up at different stages, which are preserved in the Archives of the French Foreign Ministry. Initially, the manuscript was given by the author, by will, to the library that operated next to L'hôtel des Invalides in Paris, for safekeeping, for 50 years after his death, only after which it was to be made public, which it happened in 1881. After this moment, given the extraordinary wealth of information contained in his accounts, his Memoirs were published under various titles and translations, but never in full. In the present intervention, we also point out the main editions of the Memoirs known to Romanian historiography and of course some contributions that analysed or used this source more consistently. Last but not least, we focused our attention equally on the "reception" of the relations offered by Langeron in his homeland - France, respectively in the country of adoption - Russia.

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