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them out in the same way!” It was only these
complaints and the increasing anger of the troops that
finally induced the Emperor to yield.
In 1916 I was much pleased to see M. Peter Struve,
the head of the service of economic studies connected
with the war. We reminded each other of the days
when I held the post of First Secretary in Stuttgart,
and he, Struve, eminent economist and then political
exile for reasons of opinion (there were some such!), had
come to settle in the same town in order to edit a
Russian “revolutionary” organ, the Osvobojdenie, which
my chief (the lamented Prince Gregory Cantacuzene)
and I used to read with enormous interest and intense
pleasure. It was the very free enunciation of sincere
and serious opinions on what was going on at the time
in Russia. The first numbers were of palpitating
interest, for Struve had brought back with him some
unpublished statements, some valuable matter which
the bureaucracy of the day was concealing most
carefully. Whole bales of the “subversive” gazette then
got into Russia and there was no bureaucrat who had
not got a number on his table. Several genuinely
profited by it; others delighted in reading about the
blunders and “indelicacies” therein disclosed, of which
the authors were comrades of the “English Club,” or
of such and such another “commission.” Later on the
Osvobojdenie deteriorated, for really interesting matter
became scarce as its director lost touch with Russian
life.
From the outbreak of the war, M. Struve did a
patriotic act by spontaneously offering his services in
the sphere familiar to him, that is to say in economic
affairs. I was much pleased to see the genial Professor
again; the information gathered by the commission
over which he presided was regularly communicated
to the Legation; there was some intensely interesting
matter, which threw a clear light on the economic
situation of our adversaries; there were no
preconceived opinions, no exaggeration. The conversation of
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