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i io THE BALKAN WAR, 1912 [chap. ix.
it is not surprising that the opinions of our Minister in
Rumania were often adopted and towards the end of his
stay in Bukharest he could prove with legitimate
satisfaction that he had not laboured in vain.
At the beginning of 1912 M. Michel de Giers was
given the exalted post of Russian Ambassador to
Constantinople, and was succeeded in Bukharest by a young
and brilliant diplomat, M. Nicolas Schebeko. Schebeko,
who belonged to the most influential aristocratic circles
of St. Petersburg, had begun life in a regiment of
Guards, and then, entering the diplomatic service, had
been appointed Secretary to the Embasy in Vienna,
where Prince Lobanoff was then Ambassador.
Undoubtedly gifted and possessing moreover the advantage
of very firm convictions, Schebeko, after a few years in
the diplomatic service spent in the capitals of Western
Europe, was appointed Counsellor to the Embasy in
Berlin, where our venerable and respected Ambassador,
Count Osten-Sacken, was now ending his career and his
days. The young Counsellor often had to replace his
chief for months at a time, and this gave him an
opportunity of proving his real capabilities. The
appointment of M. Schebeko to Bukharest, and more
especially the fact that he had accepted this appointment,
proved that St. Petersburg set a price on good relations
with Rumania and the Rumanian Court. The
matrimonial schemes of which Sazonoff had spoken to me had
evidently taken root in Rumania as well as in our country
and, in this case, no one could be of more use than
Schebeko and his charming wife as authorised and
discreet intermediaries between the two Courts.
The appointment of the new Russian Minister to
Rumania coincided, it is true, with a somewhat
disagreeable incident from the diplomatic point of view—
the commemoration of the Treaty of Bukharest of 1812
and of the annexation of Bessarabia. Amongst us, this
jubilee was only an occasion for a few local ceremonies
of an administrative character and for a few articles
in the newspapers. But in Rumania there were some
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