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| strange people; odi et amo; an epic hero—An old acquaintance
reappears—Ferreting out a secret—Russian official personages pass through Sweden—M. Peter Struve—The Poles—The Lithuanians and Lithuania—M. Itchas—Other typically Russian silhouettes | 358-384 |
| CHAPTER XXI
A VISIT TO PETROGRAD | |
| I go to Petrograd—Conversation with Sazonoff—General Polivanoff’s
opinion as to Rumanian help—Rumania’s difficult position—I see my successor in Sofia again; M. Savinsky on Balkan affairs; what he tells me and what he does not tell me—M. Stürmer appointed President of the Council—The Emperor present at the Duma—Prince N. Galitzyn—Prince Alexander of Oldenburg—M. Alexis Neidhart and the “Moderates”—Audience of the Emperor—The Grand-Duke Paul and his family—Audiences of the Empress Alexandra and the Dowager Empress—The Grand-Duke Nicolas Mikhailovitch—Impressions of my visit—Misgivings in political and Government circles—In popular circles—Mutterings of revolution—German machinations—The Germans increase their efforts to bring about a revolution in Russia | 385-410 |
| CHAPTER XXII
EVIL OMENS IN PETROGRAD | |
| Return to Stockholm—Audience of the King—Russian “parliamentarians”
pass through Stockholm; I make Protopopoff’s acquaintance—The Swedish Activists raise the Aland question—Wallenberg’s wise and clever policy—M. Branting—All is serene—Bad news from Petrograd; Stürmer, Rasputin, the Empress Alexandra—The Empress at General Headquarters; idyll and tragedy; M. Odier; prophetic verses—Brussiloff’s offensive—M. Protopopoff and the Polaks—Protopopoff’s talks with M. Warburg—M. Pokrovsky—The rest of the parliamentary delegation returns by Stockholm—M. Schingareff—Russo-Swedish banquet—Baron Rosen—Count S. Wielopolski—Operations in Galicia—Stürmer replaces Sazonoff—Sazonoff—A subaltern of the Guards has done his whole duty; painful journey to Petrograd—Conversations with Sazonoff; a band of malefactors—Count Wielopolski with Protopopoff—I call on Stürmer—Sazonoff’s minute on the Polish question—The Rumanians come into the war—Odious impressions of Petrograd | 411-443 |
| CHAPTER XXIII
RUSSIA IN DECLINE | |
| Return to Stockholm—Bad turn of affairs on the Rumanian front—Ferment
and disorder in Russia—Protopopoff, Home Secretary; his vagaries; his madness—Prince Nicolas of Greece goes to Russia—I expect to leave my post—Fall of Stürmer; succeeded by M. Trepoff—I retain my post—The Protopopoff-Warburg incident begins to agitate the Russian public—I emphatically contradict the Home Secretary—The Minister for Foreign Affairs has again a perfectly honest man in view—Intense agitation in all grades of Russian society—Murder of Rasputin—Protopopoff’s increasing influence—The Trepoff Ministry is of short duration—The situation becomes worse—Protopopoff and an American spiritist—Rizov arrives from Berlin to talk to me; his curious prophecy—“The Emperor must go” and a great illusion—The Revolution breaks out and triumphs—Every one is happy and content—I adhere to the Provisional Government | 444-468 |
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