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PREFACE
My Diplomatic Reminiscences include the period
between February, 1911, when I was appointed
Russian Minister to Sofia, and September, 1917, when
I put an end to my ephemeral term of office in Madrid
by refusing my further services to M. Kerensky’s
Government.
The first fourteen chapters deal with my work in
Bulgaria and with the two Balkan Wars, that of
1912 and that of 1913, which form the prelude to the
catastrophe of 1914. The succeeding chapters have
to do with Sweden, with the World-War and with
the Russian Revolution as I saw them from my post
in Stockholm.
In my Reminiscences I describe what came under
my notice, not disdaining small touches; I note what
I was able to gather; but as by virtue of my diplomatic
position my range of vision and my information were
limited, I in no way aspire to explain the whole of the
great drama which has just been performed. Moreover,
circumstances have obliged me to compile 1113/ work far
away from sources at which I might have refreshed and
verified my impressions,1 and consequently there are
a few inevitable gaps in the narrative, probably also a
few inexactitudes and some errors in dates. I tender
my apologies beforehand to the reader for these
involuntary errata, and I leave them to become the
prey of those who might wish to profit by them to
invalidate my testimony when this testimony does not
suit them.
1 My Reminiscences were written at Nice between June, 1918, and
July, 1919.
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