Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-05-21
DIPLOMATIsTs IN PErrIcOArs.
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Ist. James Gazette
II the female diplomatist has been kept
more out of sight In the current century, her
influence has BEEN none the less felt In foreign
politics. She is still q useful Intermediary be-
tween minister and minister; and her salon is
often turned to account as an ambush from
which attacks may be directed against states
and cabinets A proposal 70 outrage an ally
likely to shock diplomatic proprlety; and her
pen never compromises ministry or court.
10, Ine guinness OF blue and yellow books is un-
renewed Dy feminine correspondence. Ana
then minister may can upon q lady. however
eminent, without the fact being teiegraphed
rom one end OF Europe to the other. The
stson 1 and Nesseodes Of the last gener
Wit In International politics. When the. Aus
tr10n Chancellor was working heart and soul
70 turn out the pro- Russian ministry OF N. de-
the "Datinees allemandes" OF the Countess
Apponyi; and the share which the Princess
dr eTen ~ h al IN the insgues Of 1871 which
lington and the short lived administration Of
MI: Canning is matter which Is now pretty
seem at very early period to have taken mems
parts IN politics, and played them Well. They
i nave sn0wn tnsmselges as patient landmarks
or Italians to art; and, whenever plot was
Matching, from bedchamber conspiracy to a
desi9n against the peace Of Europe, Dashkoff
elbow doing her part to hold the threads of the
intrigue. The melancholy. sentimental char
a, OF more than one Car has suojugated
Alexander was always more or less under a
Woman'S thumb; at one time In thraldom to a
Nar5 senkne at another to Baroness Krude-
seT When this remarkable woman crossed his
pain the Car was just In that condition of mind
and pody to be easily impressed with the mystic
sayle OF religion she preached. The exhaustion
me gloom which the burning OF Moscow had
stamped upon his spirit; the errors and sorrows
OF MS domestic lhe-all inclined him to fall
eloqueDce, her mysticism, her sentimentalism,
together made conquest of AleXardsr's vac1l-
lating, imaginative disposition: and. II the Holy
1 hasee cane not Of her prompting the en-
INTO 1he project was in all likelihood kIndled by
talent in Paris engaged in the intrigues to patch
up Franco Russian alliance against England.
Princess Lieven stood head and shoulders
Of that name who had meddied with afr ana e Of
state. Her husbands mother, the Countess
Carloyna (she wes created Princess at Nlcho-
las coronation In 1920 had played distin-
gu1shed part In the re1gns of Catherine, Paul
and Alexander l., and had been Nicholas gov
erness and Instructor. Christophe Andrewftch
fhs younger o1 ger had but
say q sn Was 81 a OLD
II the Princess Daria Cnristopnario WA
did not positively dictate his dispatcSes
s sS some n1 o people said she did. we know
polcies That were often opposed to his own
convictions; for, II he could be called a dipio-
matist at an. he was OF The school OF Nessel-
sailors existed to conciliate rival ministers and
prevent monarchs from quarrelipg. The story
Oh the Princess successes here are well-known
owing to her admirable aping OF English WAYS
and manners. She was the ''ragen in London
curing many OF the nineteen years that her
nus card was ambassador here. Prince LeVen
o6d In 1889. For some time there was no ac-
creolted Russian ambas sador at the court OF
Louis Philippe, and the delicate negotiations
which passed between ST. Petersburg ana Paris
concerning the eastern question and the Russo
french alliance were entrusted to the hands OF
the Princess Daria.
The two ladies WHO have in these latter days
diplom acy-Mme. de Novikon and the Princess
Lisa TiouDetZRol-have cone their best to act
up to Ire high star dard OF intrigue which the
unions, which had been frequented Chiefly by
Th1erists during the reign OF the first presideat
OF the lew republic, became deserted when her
shall MacMahon's government Her own govern.
ment had d'sowned her, and she left Paris In dis
gust, having never achieved more than success
i, SeSne; Sae Is Only remembered now-f she
FienchWonen as an agreeable hostess and AM
aect mplished woman. Nine. Novikon, the o.
n. NOSld hutctt VI EfuSSl6 ana England " has
also dabbled little In Journalism: and when
LONDON correspondent OF the RuSS Moscow
newspaper, furnished her countrymen with
some curious notes On the ways and manners
ana nsolts OF thought, religious and POLITICAL
CT hef hosts. Her career IN London, her con,
quests amongst the mosI perfect ana astute
Statesmen OF our time, and her bold and not
unsuccessful att mpt TO make Russian hand
maid OF English High Churchism are TOO we'll
known to require notice here She has been
exceedingly useful to her friends In Russia. and
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plenty OF credulity and vanity in England to
work upon.