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26 RUSSIAN-BULGARIAN RELATIONS [chap. iv.
sincere man of moderate views, though a little too
excitable in conversation. No one, even amongst us,
ever doubted the sincerity of his feelings towards
Russia.
Among the Tzankovists, I knew M. Ludskonov very
well, the son-in-law of the old Tzankov who had died
in March, 1911. He was a perfectly honest and sincere
man ; his feelings towards Russia—I should even say
his devotion to the Russian cause—were indisputable.
But a little weak and far too easy-going by nature, he
was not born to lead a party; therefore he gave up his
place to M. Danev.
I had never met the latter before I came to Sofia as
Minister. As soon as I returned from Paris, M. Danev,
who in the meantime had been made Home Secretary,
called on me, and sketched out his ministerial
programme. I was not very favourably impressed by him.
With the experience I had acquired of Balkan politicians,
I seemed to recognise in him the typical characteristics
of the sworn Russophile—the political man who, whilst
not being hostile to us, considers that the Russian
representatives are forced to support him in all he does,
to hate all his enemies, even personal ones, and to see
eye to eye with him on all matters affecting his county.
Like most men of this type, Danev appeared to me to
be imbued with stubbornness even more than Bulgarian.
During his visit he announced—as if he was saying
something that would cause me special pleasure—that
the new Government was going to carry on the
prosecution, already begun by the Malinov Cabinet, of M.
Ghennadiev, General Savov and the other shufflers who
had formerly belonged to Stamboulov’s camp and who,
as was universally known, had been guilty of financial
dishonesty when last in office. M. Danev apparently
thought that the Russian Minister ought to be delighted
at the imminent conviction of the "agents of Austria,"
which would render them harmless for ever. He was
much astonished at the indifference with which I received
the news. In the first place I had serious doubts as to
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