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The arrival of Paskevich’s son in Warsaw on the morning of 16 August so soon after his previous visit was a sure sign to the Tsar’s staff that some important event had occurred.1 Nicholas had just received the news of Lüders’ defeat of Bem at Sibiu on 6 August and when he learnt of Görgey’s surrender he fell on his knees in front of the icon on the wall of his study in the Łazienki Palace and thanked the Almighty for his favours to Russia. He was particularly glad that Russian blood would no longer have to be sacrificed for a cause which was not directly the cause of Russia.2 As a sign of his especial favour, he issued an order that in future Paskevich was to receive the same honours as himself from the Russian army, while Rüdiger was awarded the Order of Saint Andrew Thinking of the future, the Tsar also informed Paskevich that he would shortly send him detailed plans for the immediate withdrawal of the Russian army from Hungary and Transylvania to their winter quarters in Poland and the Danubian principalities. Any Russian Poles among the prisoners were to be rounded up and sent to Zamość, while those from Galicia should be handed back to the Austrians.3
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Roberts, I.W. (1991). After the Surrender. In: Nicholas I and the Russian Intervention in Hungary. Studies in Russia and East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21195-1_10
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