Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-15

Leuohtenberg, who did not o be-
Ions to a reigniDg houne. Dolly to
| please the Grand Duchess Mary had
he given his consent. tor the Grand
Duchess Olga, her sister, he anxiously
aought a better match. The best parti
seemed 10 be Charles, Prince Royal
of Wurtemberg, If heoould be secured.
The king, however, made difficulties;
but Nicholas, swallowing bis pride,
resolved to pursue the negotiations,
which he now entrusted to Gortscha.
kof, who brought them to q success.
ful issue. On July IL, 1916, the grand
duchess wal united to the prince lat
present the monarch whom his sub
jeots have irreverently dubbed Olgus
Nicholas now asked Gortschakof to
wait awhile for his reward, and to stay
at Stuttgart (where he was minister)
as confidential counsellor to the young
princess. Meanwhile the czsr would
not forget his servant. OF course,
Gortschakof said. Under his able
tuition the princess soon acquired un-
bounded influence In her new home,
and Wurtemberg was then q factor In
the German land therefore the Euro
pean) question. OF course, too, Mich
olas redeemed his promise. In 1854
Gortsohskoff wss named ambassador
to Vienna In place of the aged Meyen-
dorff. During the Crimean war his
special mission was to keep Austria
neutral, IL he could. He moved
heaven and earth to accomplish this
object, and, though devoured by anx
Lefty and modification, showed every
where an unwrinkled front. He even
managed to create q "Russian party"
at the Austrian capital. Pamphlets ap-
peared limiting at an alliance with Rus
sic, which was to be fixed as Q
rule" and popular as q fashion"
After The war Lord John Russell
and Drouyn de L'Hays came to Wen.
ma to settle with Gortschskoff the Jon.
ditions of peace. Both fattered him.
Terms proposed by Austria were re.
garded a. too favorable by the allies.
This was Russia's darkest hour. Gort-
schakof waited at Vienna In great
anguish Of mind. When Sebastopol
fell Russia was completely exhausted.
The theater of war was about to be
transferred to Poland. The young
Emperor Alexandria submitted to fate. |
All things considered, the terms were
easy. Russia became reconciled to
England and France, but never for
gave Austria for her double. dealing.
Gortschskof vented his bitterness Ina
mot which went through the salons of
st. Petersburg like ON electric flash:
"Austria is not a nation; only q gov.
ernment."
In 1868 Gortschakof became chan.
oellor for foreign affairs vice Nessel-
rode, who retired. The traditional
policy Of Russia has always been: To
maintain an equilibrium between the
Two great German states; to extend
mr. influence among the smaller Ger.
man states and the Christian popula.
tionN the east, and to crush liberal.
Ism athome. To this has been added
since lS5 the idea Of an association Of
ABSOLUTE ,rinces against the Reds"
something like an international" Of
kings. Goischakoff broke loose from
all traditions, and became the first
and only real rAtional minister Russis
had ever had, aAhe Is the first really
great one of Russan birth and ex.rac.
ton. AT first he vas q Russophile.
and attempted great tAings In the way
Of "oivil service reform" He found
an enormous preponderaAce of German
employees In every depaemsnt. He
tried to substitute Russiana but soon.
abandoned the project. He sithdrew
his protection from the smal,r Ger.
man states, preferred an alliance for
interest to an association for q n idaa
and has greatly contributed, first, "
build up the German empire on the,
ruins Of the two others, and then to
make her the friend and ally OF Rus. |
Ella. 0ortschakoff's great aim was to
separate France and England. He
oonciliated France, lending his tsoit
support to Napoleon In thsItalian war
Of 1869. a
In 1866 he did not lift . finger to
prevent the war between Prussia and
Austria, but between 1866 tsnd 1870
indulged In wild fancies of tk division
Of the worlds empire bekeehI the
Slavic and Germanic raonss SHE RI m
sian alliance was the re G(brts.
ohakofFs policy. His 5res1 rkaSMos.
COW Gazette, admitted thlDkSOf late
years the t~endencyin Europe has bean
to the unifostions and condelsing Of
nations belonging to the same ,aoe into
vast sgglomerationr, In wEioh the
smaller States lose their IDENTITY"
Bismarck announced In 1869 that
Prussia had no interest In the east.
He held aloof from the Paris Confer.
ence In January of that year.
During the Franco. PrussiAn wal the
Russian Chancellor remained prudent.
ly neutral. In 1872 70 he established
the triple alliance between the three
Emperors. At the time of the first
!, risings Of the people commanded by
Shere,AM In Central Asia, he conclud-
cd with England q provisional agree.
ment by which he accepted the from
!, tier limits prescribed by her. But In
. the meantime be encouraged secretly
= every aggression towards England'l
Indian empire. In February, 1876,
: when the insurrection of Bosnia and
Herzegovina broke out, he aided the
= insurgents In every underhAnd way,
He approved of the famous Andrassy
note requiring Turkey to fulfill her
: duties, and then, In 1877, declared
: war against the sultan. At the closs
: Of the conflict the Russian premier
: was thu most prominent person, aftel
. Bismarck, at the preliminary diplo
= matte meeting at Santo Stefano, snt
: then ct the conference of Berlin. Ir
= 1879 . GOODNESS sprang mp between
Bismaick and him, BAT In Noveaiber
= G~ortscaakoff ,nited the Prussian