Arizona republican., 1899-05-02
FOREIGN NOTES
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General Nicholas Ignatieff, the cele-
 brated diplomat and statesman, who,
 for a time, held the office of minister i of the interior during the reign of Al i exander III, has definitely severed his | relations with the great Pan-S!aYist
 society, which flor twenty years past
 has played so very important a role In 1 the history of Russia, of Austria-Hun-
 gary and Of the Balkan states. The
 ayowed object of the association is, in i the first place, to drive all non-Rus-
 sian races out of Russia, land, second
 ly, to bring the Slavs of tAustro-Huu- gary, of Roumania, Bulgaria, SerNia. Macedonia, etc, all under the rule of the Mus3ovite cZar. Indeed, this so-
 clety has been responsible for much
 Of Russia's domestic and foreign pol
 icy, its agents working side by dde with these of the imperial govern
 ment- Count Ignatieff, who used to
 be known when ambassador at Con sta1tIncple as E'Menteur Pasha U.sLiar E2sha'0, scbrfquet which stuck to
 him after his return to St. Petersburg
 has becUne so old, inf1rcn, deaf. and very irritable that his resignation rom the association was exacted of him
 The presidency was subsequently, offered to Privy Councillor Ga1ktn
 WTaskof, whose name will be familiar 10 American readers as the head of Lhe entire prison department of the ttussian empire al the time when Mr keenan published his remarkable re- port Epo1 the penal system of Rus5ia i'll the Century magazine.
 The privy councillor, however. de- clned the presidency, and after being oHered to two or three other people It was finally conferred upon the more notorious than famous General Wis sc2Tlcn komarof, 9 t the present mo- ment the editor and publisher of widely circulated Moscow newspaper. and who came very prominently to the front at the time of the last T11r- ko-ftuSSLan war as the commander 1n-chief of the -Servian forces The
 ute Of general is a Servian one. and ne must not be confounded with his younger brother, Alexander Konaaroff who is full-fedged Russian general and who was not only the DrincinaI leutenaat of SkobeIoff, but likewise governor general of the Transcaspi9n provinces. It is to General Alexander that Russia is indebted for the pos session of the important city of Mery ln central Asia.
 The new president of the Paa-s1av- Lst society will have his principal Heu- tenant General Kirejeff, brother of that very widely known lady who writes over the initials of 70. K" and "ho, as the Mime. de NovikoT. is gen | eraIly understood to have formerly l influenced a number of English states | men, Ilcluding the Grand Old Man in nehalf Of Russia. Tn fact. it may ha | remelIbered that at the time of inc 1 ] lufko-Russian war of 1877, when pop 1 liar feoIing in England was strongly | oil the side of the Turks. the windows 'I Mr Gladstone's house in London were were smashed by mob which ondrsed the veteran statesman with f laFlng succumbed to the wiles Of fbs+ siren, Mme de NoHkof.
 Mime. de Novikoff's influence as 2 russian agent abroad has almost en- lrely disappeared, owing to her mo- orlety, which frightens foreign poli- tclans and statesmen from h3yine l. my dealings with her.
 
 Much indignation las been caused T England by the atories cabled cross to this country correrning the .lleged insanity of the princess of wales. who was reported not only to ave behaved oddly at Paris, but like zise to have suddenly deserted her "O udu5ulttS Ou DOGrQ the royal | acht Osborne, and to have taken fight to Copenhagen without notify ng anybody of her intentions Thera , not a word of truth in all this It ad always been intended that the ing of Denmarlz's three daughters fould gather around him to celebrate 4 t Copenhagen his eightietT birthday, 1e first since he became a widowar. ' he empress mother, of Russia, trav- led all the way from St. Petersburg, nd the luchess of Cumberland from jenna to be with their father on J lat day. and it is only natural, there \ 're, that the princess of Wales should roceed from Genoa to Copenhagen : )r the event { She was accompanied to the rail- pad station at Genoa by her two aughteTs and by their aunts, the rincess Beatrice of Battenberg and . . ie Empress Frederick of Germany, nd she has now rejoined the royal lcht and her daughters at Venice, f af |