Money can be a great power for good, when it is applied to the development of latent but deep-rooted national possibilities. This war has awakened all our activities and will guide our energies in the right direction. Russia, with God's help, will grow stronger than ever, will free herself from foreign elements and dangerous help, and will become a greater power than ever before. {302} 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. {305} 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