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1912] GENERAL DMITRIEV’S MISSION
availed himself of this opportunity also to send letters
on the same subject to his friends and exalted patrons
in St. Petersburg, and Todorov himself was to endorse
the aspirations of his master in our country. As may
be supposed, all this was done behind my back ; but
Todorov, who has always been sincere with me, confided
the secret to me, and in exchange I gave him the friendly
advice not to make himself the advocate of the King’s
claims on the subject of Rodosto in St. Petersburg, as
these claims could not fail to create an unfavourable
impression amongst us. As was to be expected, the
reply to the King from St. Petersburg was to the effect
that there could be no question of Bulgaria annexing
Rodosto or any other point on the Marmara.
The King, however, would not acknowledge himself
beaten. Some time after he dispatched to St.
Petersburg the victor of Lule-Burgas, General Radko-Dmitriev,
who was considered by us—-and rightly so—to be quite
devoted to Russia. The General was ordered to be
persistent with the Russian Government and even with
His Majesty the Emperor on the subject of Rodosto.
He was also told to be careful, when leaving Sofia, that
his journey and the object of this journey should not be
known to me. To this end, the General was not even to
have his passports vised at the Russian Legation in
Sofia, but by our consul in Rustchuk, and from there
he was to travel by the Bukharest-Odessa line. Having
carried out these instructions with regard to " Russian
diplomacy," Radko-Dmitriev, however, did not think it
possible to conceal his journey and the object of this
journey from his comrade-in-arms, our military agent in
Sofia; and the latter naturally informed me of it.
Moreover, Radko-Dmitriev’s journey was no more
successful than the other steps taken by the King : in
St. Petersburg every one turned a deaf ear to the
subject of Rodosto.
When he had abandoned all hope, Ferdinand
resolved to leave the town which had become so dear to
him and where he had stayed several times during the
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