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(1920) [MARC] Author: Anatolij Nekljudov - Tema: Russia, War
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JOURNEY TO DAVOS

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as to knowing whether we should consider it an
opportune moment to start these delicate negotiations
between Sofia and Belgrade, 1 should first have to ask
the advice of our Foreign Secretary, and to confer also
with my colleague in Belgrade, M. Hartwig. I
continued : " I have just received permission to go to Paris
for a fortnight on urgent private business. I could go
by Vienna instead of straight through by the
Orient-Express, and take the Zurich train, and branch off at
Landquart to Davos, where M. Sazonoff is still staying.
His health has improved so considerably that he will
shortly be able to return to St. Petersburg and to
business. On returning from Paris, I will stop for a
few hours in Belgrade so as to confer with Hartwig.
Then in three weeks from now, I could discuss the
question far more profitably with you."

"Splendid!" said M. Todorov; "the King will
probably have returned by then, and so will M.
Gueshov; and if you bring back with you the
approbation of your Minister and the valuable co-operation of
M. Hartwig, I trust we might then succeed in carrying
through the negotiations which have been outlined
several times, but which up to now have begun and
ended there."

Two days after I started, and during my journey I
had enough leisure to go over in my mind the vicissitudes
of Serbo-Bulgarian relations. I will limit myself here
to the enumeration of the principal phases.

I. Up to about 1870 there existed an almost complete
ignorance on the part of Russian policy of Bulgarian
nationality and aspirations. Serbia, under the noble
Prince Michael Obrenovitch, represented, as far as we
were concerned then, the whole Slav cause in the Near
East; the enthusiasts of this cause looked on the Serbian
principality as a " Balkan Piedmont."

II. Between 1870 and 1875 General Ignatieff, the
omnipotent Russian Ambassador to the Sultan
Abdul-Azis, discovers Bulgaria, and espouses the Bulgarian

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