Note 60 — Chapter X · ALEXANDER I, MYSTIC AND HUMANITARIAN

In the year 1812 Alexander had granted a charter to the Jesuit College of Polotsk, raising it to the rank of an “academy” and giving it rights and privileges equal to those of the university; he was then probably governed by political considerations concerning Poland, and in the charter he refers to the college as “affording great advantages for the education of youth” and trusts that the “Jesuits will labour in Poland dans le bon sens” (along the right lines.)