Gasser person

“Influence in the other key capitals... was limited to that which could be exercised through agents (for example, Gasser in Russia…”

“But relations between the Rothschilds and the the Russian Finance Minister Kankrin had never been good, so even when the Russians directly approached their agent Gasser for a loan in early 1831, James was wary.…”

““I noticed that Gasser [the St Petersburg agent] has no interest at all in our business affairs,” James wrote to Nathan in 1829 on hearing of a large consignment of silver bound for Russia:…”

“In 1838 James threatened to stop paying his salary (14,000 roubles a year), which he considered excessive, instead paying him a quarter per cent of “whatever business we do with him.”…”

“Ostensibly, this loan was needed to finance new railways: that was what Salomon told Gasser when he tried to sell “a considerable sum” of the new bonds to the cash-rich Tsar.…”

“James now took up the cudgels on Herzen’s behalf, drafting a stiff letter to Gasser in St Petersburg which threatened the Russian government with legal action and exposure in the press.…”