Beethoven pitied his friend who had left for Russia (Struve was a diplomat for Russia) that he "is now in the cold country, where humanity is treated so much beneath its dignity". From their time together in Bonn, Beethoven knows that these circumstances go against Struve's way of thinking, against his heart and against his whole feeling. Beethoven wonders when the time will come "when there will only be people", but doubts that this happy moment will come in the near future in all places in the world - "we will not see that, there will probably be centuries to come". Beethoven condoles Struve on the death of his mother and expresses some thoughts on death in general. He also reports on travel plans to Italy and Russia. He sends greetings from the Bonn friends Franz Gerhard Wegeler and Lorenz von Breuning, who are also in Vienna at the moment.
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