New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-29

Paris have now become the arena on which English
and Russian influences will end for supremacy.
Intriguing, cCaxng, maneuyering, wheeling, will
not be spared on either side and the coming Winter
viii exhibit campaign Of acute strategy. The
new Russian ambassador In Paris, Count hisselefi,
will be The leader Of the Russian forces thrown upon
the Partisan ofiicia, diplomatic, aristOcratlc and
elegant world. Few, if any, eminent men In that
sphere better fitted for the position. There lives
Rot more accomplished courtier, nor one better
apt TO face emergency and direct secret agencies
KIsselef Is The complete personihcat.On OF Russian
craft, at once So vaunted and decried Arlstocratc
ard naughty, but a. the same time Dsnuatbg and OBJ
>equiCus; cunning fl8t'erer; fastdlOus sybinte;
witty, fluent full Of tat, be can chain as well as
bite. good companion, easy, but never coarse,
az the dinner table, refined and attractive at the
eyenr party ia the bOudOir be Is master OF the
wa, and means Of society, while III the caonet ne
is equally per'picacious and INSCRIPTIONS. An
adept at elegant discrimination, having been one OF
tie leading cOuTtiers Of Alexander L. he understands
tie art Of pleasing high and low, mOnarchs aud
bc,tblachs. Formerly gay Lothario, he knows
how 70 VIII women to his side.
Paul Kisse eff was born in l1co, OF an anc.ent
bat impoverished family. In 1906 he entered he
military service. In 1912 he was abide camp of
Price Bagraion. After the deiih Of his chief, at
the battle Of Maaisk he became aid-de-camp OF the
Car Alexander l., and accompanied tina. monarch
during the campaigns in Germany and France. 10
lSI7 Kisseeff became chef Of the staff of the Second
Army commanded by Bennington, and then by Witt
ktawv
There be employed his handsome person aud ad-
dess to csptsate and marry itch young heiress OF
the Unknown noble house of Potocki For the last
twenty five years the Countess kisselef has been
known i'll salons and watering places by her charm
ing eccentIicitles. The Second Army was the focus
of the liberal aspirations which ended so trsglcally
in les, under the leadership Of Pesel, the brothers
Murayeff, Bestucbef, and others. kisseef, a..
ways tainted with liberalism, was acquainted
with the hopes and projects of the conspirators and
underbandeoy sided with them. When, how
ever, the outbreak in st. Petersburg failed, and
tie news reached the Second Army, kisselef, AZ a
ball expressly given TO ul the apprehensons OF Pes
TEL arrested his cOnhding friend. In the Turkish cam
paign CT 1889 Kisseleff commanded separate
corps Of tie army, blocBaded by land the Danubian
Priucipallties won several battles with Turkish
Pashas, and esabls shed himself firmly in Bucharest
After lie peace Of Adranope, the Emperor
Nicholas inrusted hin with the reorganization of
the PriDcipalities according to the terms of The
Treaty. In this work the new Governor showed
much ability, introducing administrative order into
Moldavia and Wsllachia, and finally perfected the
Constitutions which up to the time OF the late
Treaty of Paris ruled there, and which, place aud
circumstance considered were judged TO Do liberal
Shortly after bis return to Russia, he was called to
St. Petersburg and became a Councillor OF the
Empire and one of the mOst assiduous courters OF
the Emperor and Empress. By his wit, and varied
power Of conversation, serious or playful, he soon
became one of those admitted TO the private re-
uri.ns of the Imperial Family, which was one OF
the highest distinctions Of courtlte Nevertheless
he was not decided fayorite Of the late Emperor,
as were BenekendOrff, Orlof Adlerberg, Klein
michel. Doeoroucki, and some few others.
Kisseleff has been steady friend Of the emanc;-
patton Of tie pesssntry, and, as such, reformer
terrible to that part Of the Russian nobility opposed
to change In their hatred they tainted him with
not having sDy serfs of his own and hence running
no risk AS the Emperor Nicholas always leaned
toward emancipation, Kisseleff was appointed
to reform the CONDITION ofthe peasanry the crown
dom aims, and thus became the head Of depart
nent embracing about 20, 000, 900 souls. In this
Office be remained about eighteen years, until his
recent appointment to Paris, having abolished m,ny
abuses. and intr Jduced salutary and progressive
reforms He establ shed and multiplied common
schools on higher scale han those existing in
many other European countries, created rural
banks, model farms, and in various ways stimulated
the activity of the population. Thecrown peasantry
form the model rural population IN Russia, and
their social state is object Of envy TO the private
serfs of the nobility. The reforms introduced by
Count Kisselef will remain on the records of The
Russian a.on IS up to this time the CREATES: on
ward step made by the mass OF he people
As regards Paris, the new ambassador viii fad
the ground smoothed by The sOcia relations Of MS
brother now Russian Minister in Rome, who for
twenty Years lived in tie former capital and whose
want Of shrewdness contributed greatly 20 bring
,bout he Eastern war; The Countess Kisselef,
likewise, for many years has belonged rather to The
higher salous Of Paris than to those Of 3. Peters
burg. Count Ki.seleff ranks in Russia among the
few names Of The greatest il1uenee. OF him years
$50 the great Russian poet, Puschkin, in bitter
epieram said. that although he was incontes,aby
sn intelligent enemy of tyrants, be must not be
trusted. promises costing b u nothing.
TIE .fBanv Atlas saw fit 70 proTOke a contro-