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424 EVIL OMENS IN PETROGRAD [chap. xxii.
at first fortunate—incidents of this offensive drew the
attention of Russia and of Europe temporarily away
from the dangers of our domestic situation. The
operations of our armies had been originally fixed for
the month of July and were to have coincided with an
Allied offensive. But the Austrians’ attack on the
Asiago plateau, by placing Italy in danger, hastened the
Russian offensive by a month.
The operations were crowned with success from
the outset. It was during a dinner which we were
giving to some colleagues that I received the telegrams
containing the communiques from our G.H.Q. on the
taking of Lutsk, the breaking through the strong
Austrian lines, the capture of tens of thousands of
prisoners. From this day operations developed with
increasing success. The Russians were soon occupying
Eastern Galicia again, and the army of General
Scher-batcheff, hurriedly leaving their quarters in Bessarabia,
succeeded in reoccupying the Bukowina after sanguinary
fighting. The spoil already amounted to hundreds of
thousands of Austrian prisoners and thousands of guns.
Throughout the month of June and during the early
part of July the general political atmosphere appeared
to be clearer. Hopes of complete victory were dawning
for all the Allies, although the German front was still
intact in Volhynia and in Courland, and although the
Anglo-French offensive was beset by delays and
difficulties.
Such was the position when our parliamentarians
who had passed through Stockholm at the end of March,
stopped there again on their return from London, Paris
and Rome.
They did not all arrive together. First came: M.
Protopopoff, Vice-President of the Duma, and two elect
members of the Council of the Empire, Count Dmitri
Olsufieff (of the Monarchist Centre) and Professor
Vassilieff (of the Left). Their short stay in Stockholm
gave rise to an incident which was subsequently greatly
commented on.
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