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Title

My mission to Russia and other diplomatic memories / by the Right Hon. Sir George Buchanan.

Author

Buchanan, George, Sir, 1854-1924.

Publication

Boston : Little, Brown & company, 1923.

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Description

2 v. fronts., plates, ports., 2 fold. maps; 24 cm.

Subject

• 1871-1921
• Soviet Union > History > Revolution, 1917-1921
• Soviet Union > Foreign relations > Great Britain
• Great Britain > Foreign relations > Soviet Union
• Bulgaria > History
• Europe > Politics and government > 1871-1918

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Printed in Great Britain.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Vol. I. 1876-1880 (Vienna ; Rome ; My journey across America ; Experiences in the U.S.A. ; On the way to Tokio) -- 1880-1888 (Tokio ; Vienna again ; Austro-Russian rivalry in the Balkans ; Bulgarian situation reviewed ; Prince Alexander's abdication and Prince Ferdinand's election) -- 1888-1900 (Berne ; Darmstadt and Carlsruhe ; My personal relations with Queen Victoria) -- 1888-1903 (Agent on the Venezuela Arbitration Tribunal ; Counsellor at Rome and Berlin ; Anglo-German Relations ; Agent and Consul General at Sofia) -- 1887-1904 (Review of Prince Ferdinand's reign ; The Prince's marriage ; The era of Personal Government ; Conversion of Prince Boris ; Bulgaria and the Macedonian Insurrectionary Movement) -- 1904-1908 (My reception by Prince Ferdinand ; Bulgaria's relations with Greece, Serbia and Roumania ; Prince Ferdinand's visit to London ; German, Austrian and Russian influence ; Better relations with Russia) -- 1908-1910 (Bulgaria and the Young Turkish Movement ; Prince Ferdinand recognized as King by the Powers ; My mission to the Netherlands ; My appointment as Ambassador at St. Petersburg) -- 1911 (Russia's relations with Austria and Germany ; My first conversations with the Emperor Nicholas ; The Potsdam Agreement and its genesis ; Persian crisis ; Russia claims extension of her maritime jurisdiction ; The Povagé case) -- 1912-1914 (Visit of representative British Delegation to St. Petersburg ; Improvement of Anglo-Russian relations ; Persian question ; Action of Russian Consuls in Persia ; Conversation with the Emperor thereon ; Trans-Persian Railway) -- 1912-13 (Austro-Russian relations ; Growing unrest in the Balkans ; Serbo-Bulgarian Treaty of February 1912 ; Formation of the Balkan Confederation ; Balkan crisis ; Balmoral Meeting ; First Balkan War ; Russia's attitude regarding the Balkan States ; Serbian port on the Adriatic ; Danger of an Austro-Russian conflict ; Prince Godfried Hohenlohe's mission to St. Petersburg ; Tension relaxed ; Albania ; Conference on Bulgaro-Roumanian Frontier question) -- 1913-14 (Review of Russia's policy during the First Balkan War ; Lack of solidarity in Triple Entente, as compared with Triple Alliance ; Sazonoff in favour of Anglo-Russian Alliance ; I am offered the Vienna Embassy ; Second Balkan War ; Treaty of Bucharest ; General Liman von Sanders' appointment to Command of First Army Corps at Constantinople) -- 1910-1914 (Internal situation of Russia ; Political unrest in the Universities ; M. Stolypin, M. Kokovtsoff, M. Goremykin ; Growing gravity of the situation) -- 1896-1914 (My relations with the Emperor and Imperial Family ; The Empress Alexandra ; First audiences with the Emperor, 1896 ; His great personal charm ; The Empress Marie ; The Grand Duchess Marie Pawlowna ; The Grand Duchess Victoria and the Grand Duchess Xenia ; The Grand Duke Nicholas Michaelowich) -- 1914 (German criticism of Entente attitude ; Russia's and Great Britain's desire for good relations with Germany ; Presentation of Austrian Ultimatum at Belgrade) -- 1914 (Conversation at the French Embassy ; Sazonoff urges war can only be averted by our declaring our complete solidarity with France and Russia ; H.M.G. assumes role of Mediator ; Russia's conciliatory attitude ; Course of negotiations ; Austria declares war ; Russia's mobilization ; Germany threatens Russia ; Ultimatum and declaration of war) -- 1914 (Rebuts statement respecting my attitude with regard to our participation in the war ; Emperor's War Manifesto ; The nation rallies round the throne ; Patriotic scenes at Moscow ; The offensive in East Prussia ; Battle of Tannenberg ; Campaign in Poland ; Russian shortage of munitions and rifles ; Count Witte's peace campaign) -- 1914-15 (Turkey's entrance into the war ; Closing of Straits ; Russia asks sanction to eventual acquisition of Constantinople ; My audience with the Emperor on the subject ; Negotiations with Bulgaria ; Serbia is asked to make concessions in Macedonia ; Allies and Serbia ; Political agreement reached with Roumania) -- 1915 (Russians in Carpathians ; German counter measures ; Mackensen assumes command ; Warsaw and other fortresses surrender ; The Emperor assumes supreme command ; Rasputin's influence, his life and character ; Reactionary Ministers dismissed ; The Duma ; Union of Zemstvos favour a Government possessing confidence of the nation ; Peace overtures ; I am given G.C.B.).
• Vol. II. 1916 (Improvement in military situation ; Success of Brussiloff's offensive ; Roumania intervenes too late ; Stürmer appointed President of the Council ; I receive the Freedom of Moscow) -- 1916 (The Polish question ; Sazonoff is dismissed ; Stürmer appointed Foreign Minister ; Stürmer and the pro-Germans ; I speak to the Emperor about the internal situation) -- 1916 (Anti-British campaign by Germans ; Trepoff and Pokrowski appointed respectively President of Council and Minister for Foreign Affairs ; Policy of the Empress and motives ; Rasputin's assassination ; Change of Government in England) -- 1917 (Trepoff resigns ; Prince Golitzin as President of the Council ; My last audience with the Emperor ; Meeting of Allied Conference and its outcome) -- 1917 (My telegram reviewing Russian situation for information of Imperial Conference ; Revolution begins ; Rodzianko's telegram to the Emperor ; Attitude of the Government and of the Duma ; The Emperor decides to appoint a military dictator and to come himself to Petrograd ; Appointment of an Executive Committee by the Duma ; Formation of Soviet ; Emperor's offer of concessions arrives too late ; Delegates sent to Pskov to demand his abdication ; Appointment of Provisional Government ; Grand Duke Michael provisionally renounces the throne ; Prikaz No. 1) -- 1917 (The Emperor and the Empress placed under arrest ; The Empress's fatal influence ; Character and education of the Emperor ; Review of his reign ; His fatalism and firm belief in a controlling Providence) -- 1917 (Our recognition of the Provisional Government ; I am accused of having promoted the Russian Revolution) -- 1917 (Order re-established at Petrograd ; Discipline of Army undermined ; The Provisional Government ; Struggle between Government and Soviet ; Kerensky's views ; Lenin enters on the scene) -- 1917 (Struggle between Miliukoff and Kerensky ; War aims ; Conflict with the Soviet ; The Government wins a moral victory ; Kerensky becomes Minister of War and of Marine ; Socialism dominant ; The Cadets ; Social Revolutionaries ; Social Democrats ; Bolsheviks) -- 1917 (Mr. Henderson's mission, its genesis and objects ; Convocation of all Russian Council of Workmen's Delegates ; Anti-war propaganda of the Bolsheviks ; Tereschenko's proposal for Allied Conference ; Bolshevik rising at Petrograd) -- 1917 (Kerensky appointed Prime Minister ; Stockholm Conference ; Moscow Conference and its results) -- 1917 (Rumours of a counter-revolutionary movement ; Rupture between Kerensky and Korniloff ; Kerensky declines to treat with Korniloff and declares him a traitor ; Korniloff orders troops to advance on Petrograd ; Collapse of the movement ; Korniloff resigns) -- 1917 (Soviet regains the upper hand ; The Democratic Congress accepts a Coalition Government ; Conversations with Tereschenko and Kerensky ; The Government summons a Provisional Council as a Consultative Chamber ; Russia's representation at the Paris Conference) -- 1917 (Rumours of a Bolshevik rising ; Defeat of the Government in the Provisional Council ; The Bolsheviks strike ; Kerensky escapes ; Bombardment of Winter Palace ; Arrest of Ministers ; Bolsheviks form a Government ; Kerensky utterly discredited ; Bolsheviks become masters of the North) -- 1917 (Trotsky's proposal for an Armistice ; His attack on the Allies ; Trotsky refuses to allow British subjects to leave Russia) -- 1917-1918 (My interview with journalists with regard to our attitude towards the Armistice negotiations ; Signature of Armistice ; Lawlessness on the increase in Petrograd ; Trotsky's appeals to Allied peoples ; Bolshevik aims ; Our last day at Petrograd) -- 1918-1922 (Our journey home through Finland ; War Cabinet's telegram ; My unofficial Russian work ; British Russia Club ; My views on the Russian situation and on the policy of intervention ; My appointment as Ambassador at Rome ; Our two years in Italy ; My wife's death).

LCCN

^^^23012797^

OCLC

• 1521780
• SCSB-12175209

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library