Chapter XXIII: Conclusion

And now I have finished. I have told of some of the things I have seen, heard, and felt. I have drawn upon my recollections just as one might draw tickets at a raffle.

From my earliest childhood I have always been greatly attracted by people much older than myself. They taught me things that I wanted to know but was too lazy to learn through books and from governesses, who generally appeared to me stiff, cold, and unsympathetic.

Ugly and whimsical child as I was, outsiders generally took a fancy to me, and, through their conversation, my mind unconsciously obtained the habit of meddling with serious questions which I very often felt to be beyond me. This habit of meddling with things beyond my depth has never left me, with the natural consequence (Heaven knows!) of frequent disillusionments.

Now I have to reverse the order of my youth, and find interest in the younger generation more than I did when I was a contemporary.

However, my raffle is closed. I hope that some words of mine have not been in vain. It remains for Russians and Englishmen to get to know each other. When they do, their friendship will be indissoluble--I know both.

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INDEX

Abdul Hamid, 48, 157, 158, 161

Afghanistan, 81

Aksakoff, Ivan, 37

Alcohol in Russia, 168, 169

Alexandra, Empress, 23

Alexandrovna, Empress Marie, 73

Anglo-Russian agreement, 18, 25

Anglo-Russian Alliance, 94, 286, 293, 294

Anglo-Turkish Convention, 151

Armenia, 147, 148, 152, 161

Armenians, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152

Asquith, Mr. H. H., 79

Athens, 49

Austria, 95, 96, 203

Balkans, the, 31, 39, 41, 46, 85, 264

Baltic, the, 25

Baring, Walter, 26

Bartlett, Sir Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, 99

Belgrade, 31

Belgium, 23, 51

Berlin, 87

Berlin Congress, 149, 159

Béust, Count, 82

Bismarck, Prince, 50, 51, 60, 98, 277

Bludoff, Countess, 73

Bosnia, 31

Brunow, Baron, 23, 108

Bulgaria, 19, 23, 40, 113, 265, 267, 270

Bulgarians, 19, 267, 269

_Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East, The_, by Mr. Gladstone, 26

Campbell-Bannerman, Lady, 78

Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, 76, 78, 79

Carlyle, Thomas, 80, 81, 163

Cettingje, 31

_Christ or Moses? Which?_ by Madame Novikoff, 58

Clarendon, Lord, 292

Cologne, 69

Constantine, Grand Duke, 247, 253

Constantinople, 47, 49, 72, 163, 266

Constantinople Conference, 46, 48

Cossacks, 37

Crete, 49

Crimean War, 203

Cyprus Convention, 151, 161

_Daily News, The_, 26, 39, 120

Disraeli, Mr. (Lord Beaconsfield), first meeting with Madame Novikoff, 24; his policy resented by Russia, 29; against the freeing of Bulgaria from Turkish oppression, 113; his high opinion of Abdul Hamid, 157-158; on the Treaty of Berlin, 159; on England's policy with regard to Asia Minor, 160; opposes Russia's entry into Constantinople, 266

Dmitrieff, General Radko, 267

Dogger Bank incident, 197

Dolgorouki, Prince Vladimir, 74

Döllinger, Dr., 57, 58, 68

Dostoyevsky, Fiodor, 236, 237

Douma, the, 49

Egypt, 94

Elizabeth, Grand Duchess, 137, 296

Emperor, Russian, 21

England, 20, 29, 30, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 49, 50, 52, 89, 93, 96, 97, 99, 100, 113, 118, 149, 151, 155, 158, 160, 164, 185, 186, 193, 194, 197, 201, 216, 217, 238, 242, 269, 292, 293, 294, 296

France, 79, 89, 203, 237

Franco-German War, 288

Freeman, E. A., 39

_Free Russia_, 199

Fock, General, 192

_Fortnightly Review_, 61, 163

Froude, Henry, 39, 66, 80, 82, 194

Germany, 22, 33, 50, 51, 95, 109, 203, 271, 277, 287, 291, 293, 297

Ghiray, Hadji, 31

Gibraltar, 49

Girardin, Emile de, 70

Gladstone, Mr. W. E., makes acquaintance of Madame Novikoff, 23; what he called her, 24; solitary championship of Russia, 25; publishes his pamphlet, _The Bulgarian Horrors and the Question of the East_, 26; his anxiety about the future of England and Russia, 27; speaks at St. James's Hall, 43; a misunderstood incident, 44; his fearless denunciation of Turkey, 45; his friendship with Madame Novikoff criticised, 48; his dying utterance, 53; his character, 54; he reviews Madame Novikoff's _Russia and England_, 55; Cardinal Manning's opinion of him, 56; his interest in the Old Catholics, 57; a letter to Madame Novikoff, 58; another letter, 62-64; his interest in Shakespeare, 65; a talk with Hayward, 67; his love of books, 68; an incident at Munich, 69; at a dinner in Paris, 70; his knowledge of French, 71; a comment by the _Pall Mall Gazette_, 102; on the Berlin Treaty, 147; urges the coercion of the Sultan, 152; a letter on Lord Salisbury's position, 153; on the Sultan of Turkey, 154; condemns the policy of Prince Lobanoff, 156; on the Cyprus Treaty, 161; on the history of nations, 219

Gladstone, Mrs., 40, 55, 67

Gladstone, Miss Helen, 69, 70, 71

Gortschakoff, Prince, 37, 51, 95, 105

Goya, Francisco, 84

Great Britain, 23, 34, 40, 48, 162

Greece, 49

Grey, Lady Sybil, 137

Grey, Earl, 137

Hague Conference, The, 30, 186

Hamilton, Bishop, 56

Harcourt, Sir William, 39

Hayward, 65, 67, 193, 194

Helen, Grand Duchess, 73, 74-77, 141, 142

Herzegovina, 31

Ignatieff, General, 46, 47

_Is Russia Wrong?_ by Madame Novikoff, 162

Italy, 32, 203

Japan, 197, 257

Jews, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 119, 120, 121

Kaiser, 20, 87

"Karaims," ancestors of, 122

Kinglake, A. W., 34, 39, 66, 82, 93, 97, 186, 187, 188, 192, 193, 194

Karaite Jews, the, 119

Keyserling, Count, 60, 77, 89

Khalil Pasha, 72

Khanoff, General Ali, 21

Khvostoff, Mons., 23

Kiréeff, Alexander, 31, 32, 50, 125, 248

Kiréeff, Nicholas, 31, 32, 33, 35, 39, 41, 51

Kireevo, 41

Kovalsky, Bishop, 179

_La Revue Internationale dc Théologie_, 61

Liszt, Franz, 138, 143

Lobanoff-Rostovsky, Prince, 103, 160

Loftus, Lord Augustus, 36, 37

London, 23, 77, 87, 100, 102, 104, 114, 115

Lucca, 32

Manning, Cardinal, 56, 57

Mariavites, the, 179

Mikoulin, General, 189

Milan, Prince, 32

Mohammedans in Russia, 21

Montefiore, Mr. George, 121

Moscow, 17, 18, 19, 36, 37, 49, 51, 68, 85, 141, 142, 298

_Moscow Gazette_, 106, 165

Munich, 69

Murchison, Sir Roderick, 89

_My Secret Service_, 271

Naoumovitch, Father, 96

Napier, Lord, 39, 72, 73

Nesselrode, Count, 95

Newmarch, Mrs., 145

Nicholas, Count, 47

Nicolaevitch, Grand Duke Constantine, 76, 141

Nicholas I, Emperor, 90-95, 97-98

Nicolas, Grand Duke, 74

Nihilism, 199, 201, 202, 204, 276

_Nineteenth Century, The_, 55, 163

Nordau, Dr. Max, 121

Novikoff, Alexander, 125, 127, 128, 170, 174

Novikoff, E., 104

Novikoff, M., 129, 134, 135

Novikoff, Madame Olga, in Moscow, 17; her ambition being realised, 18; memories of 1876, 19; introduction to Mr. Gladstone, 23; and to Mr. Disraeli, 24; what Mr. Gladstone called her, 24; her fight against prejudice, 26; Mr. Gladstone's visits, 27; her brother, Nicholas, goes to help the Slavs, 31; his death, 32; effect on Russia, 34; she assists the ambulance work, 38; in despair she blames England, 39; her English correspondents, 39; letter from Mrs. Gladstone, 40; at the St. James's Hall meeting, 43; Mr. Gladstone sees her home, 44; she writes to him, 45; back in Russia, 48; Russia declares war against Turkey, 49; she publishes her book, _Russia and England_, 54; which Mr. Gladstone reviews, 55; a letter from Mr. Gladstone, 58; she publishes a German pamphlet, 60; a letter from Prof. E. Michaud, 61; Mr. Gladstone writes to her, 62; Hayward, the critic, 65; her memory of Tyndall, 68; a visit to Miss Helen Gladstone, 69; her Thursday receptions in Russia, 72; her mother-in-law, 74; at the Grand Duchess Helen's ball, 75; she meets the Campbell-Bannermans, 77; her last talk with Sir Henry, 79; visits from Carlyle and Froude, 80; she visits Carlyle on his death-bed, 81-82; a memory of Mark Twain, 82; her friendship with Verestchagin, 84; her meeting with Skobeleff, 85; his last visit to her, 86; a talk with Prince Gortschakoff, 95; a reminiscence of childhood, 96; a tribute from Sir Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, 99; her detestation of the word "mission," 101; a remark of the _Pall Mall Gazette_, 102; a letter from Prince Lobanoff-Rostovsky, 103; her brother, E. Novikoff, 104; a Press comment on her friendship with Count Shouvaloff, 105; her last interview with Prince Gortschakoff, 105; why she used the initials "O.K.," 106; in London, 108; a speech on Shakespeare, 110-111; her first public expression of views on the Jewish question, 112; letters to _The Times_, 114--116; her comment on the Sydney Street affair, 118; her attitude towards Jews, 121; in Russia, the famine, 125; her son, Alexander Novikoff, 127; interviewed by _The Week's News_, 128-136; a visit to Paris, 139; about Nicolas Rubinstein, 140-142; a talk with the Grand Duchess Helen, 142; memories of well-known musicians, 143-146; she hears of the Armenian massacres, 152; letters from Mr. Gladstone, 153-154; she tries to persuade her country that Disraeli does not represent England, 156; what she was told about the Cyprus Treaty, 161; she publishes _Is Russia Wrong?_ 162; her dream of an Anglo-Russian understanding, 165; a conversation on the drink question in Russia, 166-170; in Petrograd, 175; in the village of Novo Alexandrovka, 177; about the "Mariavites," 179; memories of Scotland, 184; her first meeting with John Bright, 186; a talk with Kinglake, 187; his weekly letters, 193; about the Dogger Bank affair, 197; in London, 200; on the English idea of Siberia, 216; why prisoners are sent to Siberia, 217; her introduction to _Siberia as it is_, 220; her friend, Helen Voronoff, 226; on Russian prisons, 227; a visit from Dostoyevsky, 236; about Russia in 1905; on the Grand Duke Constantine, 247; a letter from him, 251; on Prince Oleg Constantinovitch, 252; a visit from ex-President Grant, 266; on prisoners of war, 272; on the Russian Slavophils, 282; her ideal in life, 286; on Prussianism, 289; on England, 295

_Pall Mall Gazette_, The, 102

Paris, 70, 73, 139

Parliamentary system in Russia, 214

Pasha, Madame Nubar, 100

Pears, Sir Edwin, 26, 47

Pears, Sir Edwin, _Forty Years in Constantinople_, 47

Petrograd, 18, 19, 36, 49, 68, 72, 97, 100, 111, 115, 118, 139, 141, 144, 166, 170, 175, 242, 243, 269, 299

Pobyedonostzeff, C. P., 68

Rakovitz, 32

Ratchinsky, Mr. Serge, 176, 177

_Revue des Deux Mondes_, 70

Roumiantzoff Museum, Moscow, 41, 86

Rubinstein, Nicolas, 138, 140, 141, 142, 143

_Russia and England_, by Madame Novikoff, 54, 107, 163

Russia, Tsar's reception in Petrograd and Moscow, 18; sympathy for oppressed Slavs, "Red Cross" collections, 19; pledge to save Serbia, 20; Mohammedans, 21; Emperor's New Year address, 21; political unity, 22; attitude towards Great Britain in 1876 and in 1914, 23; crisis between Great Britain and Russia, 25; inclination for war with Turkey, 26; bitterness against Disraeli's policy, 29; England blamed for Slav oppression, 30; Russian volunteers to help Slavs, 31; army eager to assist, 34; effect of Nicholas Kiréeff's death, 35, 38, 39; Cossacks in disguise sent to Balkans, 36; chivalry of Russian nature, 37; Great Britain and Russia's distrust of each other, 40; England's attitude hostile, 43; war declared against Turkey, England's neutrality, 48; plans ascribed to England, 49; receipt of the news of declaration of war, 49; mission to Afghanistan, 81; eve of Russo-Turkish War, 85; smoking not common among women, 100; "Russians are Slavs," 106; Jewish question in Russia, 112; what the Hebrews did in 1876, 113; feeling between Slavs and Jews, 113; Yiddish jargon not used by Russians, 117; vigilance with regard to criminals, 117; famine of 1892, 125; sufferings of people, 126, 128-136; Moscow and Petrograd Conservatoriums, 141; people's interest in England's expressed sympathy for oppressed Armenians, 162; temperance measures, 167; Germans encourage sale of alcohol in Polish provinces, 178; reforms in Russia effected rapidly, 180; arrest of alleged Englishwoman at Warsaw, 196; Dogger Bank incident, 197; and a parallel, 198; feeling towards Nihilists, 202; war never desired, 203; effect of political murders, 209; people's loyalty to Emperor, 210; unlimited faith in new theories, 211; difference between students of 1840 and 1860, 212; parliamentary system unsatisfactory, 214; Russian nature, 214, 215; meaning of Siberia to Englishmen, 216; the convict's treatment in Siberia, 217; proportion of prisoners, 218; revolution of 1905, 237; the "Court of Petitions," 241; the Court of Appeal to Mercy, 242; prisoners taken for active service, 244; political prisoners' patriotism. 245; the ancient Russian parish, 279; proposed reforms, 281, 282; appreciation of England's assistance in European War, 290

Russo-Japanese War, 88

Russo-Turkish War, 85

Salisbury, Lord, 46, 47, 115, 152, 153, 161

Safonoff, M., 145

San Stéfano treaty, 149, 150, 266, 267

Sassoun, 148, 149, 151, 152

Serbia, 17, 20, 35, 41, 216, 217, 218, 248

Seymour, Sir Henry, 93

Seymour, Vice-Admiral, 198

Shouvaloff, Count, 103, 104, 105

_Siberia as it is_, by Harry de Windt, 220

Skobeleff, General, 85, 86

Skobeleff, Madame, 85

Slavonic Saints, 47

Slavs, treatment in 1875, 18; Russian sympathy, 19; Russia's pledge to help Serbia, 20; England blamed for Turkey's cruelty, 30; help from Russian volunteers, 31; Mr. Gladstone's sympathy, 45; Russia the only Power which cares for Slavs, 95

Smirnoff, General, 192

Smoking in Russia, 106

Sofia, 31

Staal, Baron and Baroness de, 102

_State and its Relation to the Churches_, by Mr. Gladstone, 56

Stead, W. T., 24, 103, 106, 237

St. James's Hall Conference, 43, 45, 51, 55, 105

Sultan, the, 30

Sydney Street outrage, 117, 118

Talmudist Jews, 119, 122

Tchaikovsky, 144

Tchernaieff, General, 32, 33

Tikhomirov, Leon, 204-215

_Times, The_, 112, 114, 115, 116, 154, 194

Treaty of Berlin, 147, 159

Treaty of Paris, 95, 105, 147

Troubetskoi, Princess Lise, 100

Tsar, the, 17, 18, 21, 51, 100, 114, 166, 177

Turkey, 30, 39, 45, 46, 48, 49, 72, 96, 97, 150, 160, 162, 181

Twain, Mark, 82, 83, 84

Tyndall, 60

_Unsterblichkeítslehre nach der Bibel_, 60

Vatican, the, 57

_Vatican, The_, by Mr. Gladstone, 57

Verestchagin, Vassily, 84-88

Verneuil, M. de, 89

Victoria, Queen, 50, 54, 55, 108

Vienna, 104

Viennese aristocracy, the, 66

Villiers, Charles, 39, 82, 291

Volnys, Madame, 73

Voronoff, Miss Helen, 226-228

Warsaw, 196

Watson, Mr. William, 157

Witte, Count, 178

Zaitschar, 37