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Petersburg the police had raided her house and seized
her papers, on which she was expelled from the capital
and sent to one of the estates of some relations of hers.
Soon after I received from the Foreign Office a large
parcel marked “very confidential,” which I was told to
dispatch, through my Spanish colleague, to the Spanish
Ambassador in Berlin. It contained the letters still
sealed that Macha Vassiltchikoff had brought from
Germany addressed to the Empress and to the Emperor
and which were being sent back to the senders. This
ridiculous incident, however, sufficed—just like the
incident of Protopopoff-Warburg, which I shall relate
in its proper place—to wake up the Russian public and
to cause the rumours about the pro-German intrigues,
in which the Empress Alexandra was involved, to be
believed.
The official personages who passed through Sweden
and stopped in Stockholm were naturally the object of
the special attentions of the Legation and its members.
In the first place, there were the numerous soldiers
(engineers, artillery officers, etc.) who were going to
the western front and to America, or returning thence.
The principal object of their journey was arms and
ammunition orders. Professor Gardner also came twice,
and I was much pleased and interested to make his
acquaintance; he was a distinguished chemist, sent on a
very special and important mission. It was shortly
after the horrible surprise of the poison-gas, used for
the first time by the Germans on the French front.
Since then they had used it constantly on the Russian
front. Professor Gardner was sent to the west to find
out what our allies had done in order to fight the
Germans henceforth with the same weapon. He told us,
amongst other things, that for a long time the Emperor
Nicolas II. could not be persuaded to consent to the
adoption of this horrible method; but the Russian
soldiers began to complain: “the Germans suffocate us
like rats in our trenches, and our chiefs dare not pay
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