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> This Russian favoritism is really intriguing.
Indeed.
I dunno what the Russian leaders had seen in keeping him around. Sure it quickened the end of the war and spared many life on all sides, but was that important to them? Some prestige, the capitulation meant, for the Tzar, but was that much? Well Haynau fumed about it at least, maybe the Russian generals enjoyed rubbing it in or something. Did they respected him? We have no insight into their thought process, no written source historians now about.