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INTRIGUES AT SOFIA [chap.viii.
aide-de-camp to Prince Alexander of Battenberg, and
who then went into the administration of the Imperial
Court, where he was finally given the rank of
Lieu-tenant-General, although he had never returned to the
Army. Very intimate with the Emperor, Mossoloff
was commissoned to accompany the Grand-Duke
Andrew Vladimirovitch to Bulgaria, to act as mentor to
His Highness in this country where he had so many
acquaintances. This flattering mission and the festivities
of Sofia awoke in the worthy General the sudden desire
to exchange his Court functions for the activity, the
honours, and the high salary of a Minister
Plenipotentiary. He seemed to have been predestined by fate
itself to the post of Sofia. All the same it was M.
Savinsky who became my successor, and that only at the
end of 1913. As to General Mossoloff, his diplomatic
career only began much later, during the celebrated
Sturmer’s short term at the Foreign Office.
The spring of 1912, thus served as a starting point
for intrigues emanating from different sides, which aimed
at terminating my term of office in Sofia. The historic
events which occurred soon after prevented the realisation
of these intrigues, up till the moment when these same
events in their final development caused my departure
from Bulgaria to be almost opportune. I was
transferred from Sofia to Stockholm after the Treaty of
Bukharest in 1913, and as I did not approve of the
stipulations in it, it would have been very painful to me to
remain in Sofia; although my presence in Bulgaria
during the beginning of the World War might have
been of some use to the cause of Russia and the Allies.
I received the first information on the subject of the
intrigues against me in June, 1912. I heard from St.
Petersburg that Danev had repeatedly insinuated there
and at Livadia that I had not succeeded in establishing
good relations with Ferdinand and that I had not even
got on well with the Bulgarians. Besides these
accusations of a purely academic nature, I got to know—on
good authority—that a great deal of gossip about me
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