Robert Nisbet Bain, 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 12… (1911)
“ He also controlled, with consummate ability, the operations of the brand-new Russian diplomatists at the various foreign courts. His superiority over all his Muscovite contemporaries was due to the fact that he was already a statesman, in the modern sense, while they were still learning the elements of statesmanship. ”
