INDEX
A
Abdurrahman Khan, 316
A deaf diplomat, 32
Aehrenthal, Baron von, 306, 308, 309
Agra Palace, India, 186
A journalist outwitted, 310
Akbar, 186
Albuquerque, 237
Alexander II, 116; attempted assassination of, in 1880, 125, assassination of, 157 sqq.; sorrow of the people for, 159; funeral of, 159 sqq.; King Edward and Queen Alexandra at, 162, 208, 349.
Alexander III, Order of the Garter conferred on, 162 sqq.; precautions for safety of, 164, 189.
Alexandra Colony, 269 sqq.
Ali Pasha and the Congress of Berlin, 1878, 66.
Alsace, 15
Ampthill, Lady, 27; saves the life of William II, 73
Ampthill, Lord, 26
Andrassy, Count, and the Congress of Berlin, 1878, 66
An embarrassing situation, 114
An exclusive Court, 63
Argentine girls, beauty of, 260
Aristocratic waitresses, 24-25
Arisugawa, Prince, 336
Arisugawa, Princess, 336
Asuncion, 276 sqq.
Augusta, Empress, 34
Austria, disappearance of the Court, 13
Austrian aristocracy, characteristics of, 49; interrelationship of, 50
Austrian diplomat, a deaf, 32
Awkward predicament, an, 137-138
B
Bahia, 240
Barmecides' feast, a, 25
Bay of Chaleurs, 300
Beaconsfield, Lord, and the Congress of Berlin, 1878, 66, 67
Bear hunt in Russia, a, 139-141
Beauharnais, Countess Zena, 179
Beethoven, 59
Bieloselskaya, Princess, 179
Bismarck, 16 sqq., 27, 28; on male and female nations, 28
Bismarck, Count Herbert, 30, 39, 308
Biting-fish in South America, 274
Blessing of the Neva, the, 122
Botanic Gardens at Rio de Janeiro, the, 245
Brazil, 238
British Minister, a, in Carnival time, 250 sqq.
Broadminded Scots parents, 111
Buckingham Palace and Berlin Schloss compared, 39-40
Buenos Ayres, 248 sqq.; carnival at, 250; masked balls in, 255; sport in, 264 sqq.
Bulow, Hans von, 26
C
Calcutta, the Maidan at, 321
"Camp," the, Buenos Ayres, 249
Campbell, Colonel, 234
Canada, 300 sqq.
Carnival at Buenos Ayres, the, 249
Cathedrals, three famous Moscow, 183
Carolath-Beuthen, Princess, 39
Catherine the Great, 192; and the violet in Tsarskoe Park, 194
Charlemagne, 50
Cintra, 235
Circus in Lisbon, 221
Circus performer who became a Bishop, 225-226
Classification of nationalities, Bismarck's, 28
Clown, the author's personal experience as a, 223
Commercial Court Chamberlain, a, 243
Congress of 1878, the, in Berlin, 66
Connaught, Duchess of, 43
Conversational difficulties, 43-47, 166
Courting in Portugal, a curious custom, 217
"Croissants"--Viennese roll, origin of, 57
Crown Prince, 79
Culinary curiosities in Japan, 318-319
Curious sporting incidents, 145 sq.
D
Darwin, 257
Dawn in a Finnish forest, 174 sq.
"Deaf and dumb people," 134
Deference paid to Austrian Archdukes, 63
Delyanoff, M., Minister of Education, 127; curious obsequies of, 127-129
Delyanoff, Mme., 127
Dentist, a polite, 205-206
Depreciated currency in the Argentine, 275
De Reszke, Edouard, 220
De Reszke, Jean, 220
De Reszke, Mlle., 220
Diaz, 237
Dolgorouki, Prince Alexander, 180
Dolgorouki, Princess Kitty, 179
Dolgorouki, Princess Mary, 179, 180
Dom Luiz, 212-213
Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil, 243-244-245-246
Doré, Gustave, 234-235
Dowdeswell, Admiral, 231
Drunkenness in Russia, 141-142
Duc de Croy, the, a Belgian and an Austrian subject, 53
Dué, M., Swedish Minister to Russia, 128
Dufferin, Marchioness of, 88-89, 129, 139, 154, 159, 160
Dufferin, Marquis of, Ambassador to Petrograd, 88 sqq., 128, 129, 153; his diplomatic methods, 156-157-310
E
Easter Supper in Russia, the, 109
Easy-going Austria, 49
Edinburgh, Duchess of, 125
Edinburgh, Duke of, 123
Elector of Brandenburg, 52
Emperor William I, 32-33
Empress Marie, 208
Empress Elisabeth, 63-64
England, "Junker" Party's hostility to, 20
Environs of Berlin, 70 sqq.
European Courts, disappearance of, 13
Exciting salmon fishing, 166-167
Expensive entertainment, an, 153
Exquisite Russian church music, 92
Extradition Treaty between Great Britain and Paraguay, 204
F
Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg, Prince, 212
Finland, 164-165 sqq.
Footman as entomologist, the, 246-247
Formosa, 277
Fortress Church, Petrograd, 89, 90
Francis II, last of the Holy Roman Emperors, 50-51
Franz Josef of Austria, 52, 308
Frederick Charles of Prussia, Princess, 34
Frederick Count of Hohenzollern, 52
Frederick the Great, 27, 36, 74-75
Frederick William I, 74
French Ambassador's ball at Moscow, unusual incident at, 190-191
G
Gapon, Father, 348
Gargantuan dinner, a, 187-188
Gatchina Palace, 208; children's play-room at, 209-210
George V, 186
German "door-politeness," 219
Germany, disappearance of the Court, 13
Germany, music in, 22-23
Ghika, Prince, Roumanian Minister to Russia, 128
Giers, M. de, Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, 103, 202, 203, 204
Gigantic Court Pages, 40
Gonçalves, 241
Gortchakoff, Prince, and the Congress of Berlin, 1878, 66, 67
Gourmet, an ecclesiastical, 41-45
Gran Chaco, the, 268
Groote Constantia, 197
Gulf between Russian nobility and peasants, 147
> H
Harraka Niska, 164 sqq.
Henry the Navigator, Prince, 237
Hilarious funeral, a, 127-128
Hohenzollerns ever a grasping race, 52
"Holy Roman Emperor," the, 50
Hooveny M. van der, Netherlands Minister to Russia, 128
Humbert, King, 326
Hungary, invasion of, by the Turks in 1683, 56
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Ice-boating on the Gulf of Finland, 176
India, 186
Indoor games, Russians' love for, 177
Inelegant palaces, 75
Inquisitive peasant, an, 135
"Intelligenzia," the, 104
Irritating customs in Vienna, 54-55
Ismail, Khedive of Egypt, 201
Ivan III, 184
J
Japanese advertising, 338
Japanese politeness, 334
Jardine, Captain, 284 sqq.
Jena, 16
Jomini, Baron, 103
"Junker" Party, hostility of, towards England, 20
K
Karolyi, Countess, Austrian Ambassadress in Berlin, 38, 63
Katheodory Pasha and the Congress of Berlin, 1878, 66
Kiderlin-Waechter, Baron von, 306-307
King Edward attends Alexander II's funeral, 162
King of Prussia proclaimed German Emperor at Versailles, 15
Kingsley, Charles, 345
Klepsch, Colonel, 309
Koltesha, 167-168-169
Koltesba, shooting at, 168 sqq.
Königgrätz, 15
Kremlin, the, 182 sqq.; the Great Palace, 185
Kyoto, the Emperor's palace, 321
L
Ladies' unchangeable Court fashions in Russia, 117
Lapp encampment on the Neva, 112-113
Lawson, Sir Wilfrid, 307
Lazareff and the great Orloff diamond, 124
Leopold I, 52
"Les Bals des Palmiers," 120
Leuchtenberg, Duchess of, see Beauharnais
Liebknecht, Herr, 29
Lisbon, 211
Lisbon, beauty of, 229
Lister, Lord, 192
Liszt, 26
Lobkowitz Palace, 59
Lobkowitz, Prince, 59
Lopez, Francisco, 277
Lorraine, 15
Louis XIV, 52
Louis XVI, 57
Louise Margaret of Prussia, Princess, 43
Louise, Queen, of Prussia, 30-31
Lovendal, Count, Danish Minister in Petrograd, 306-307
Luncheon in pyjamas, 154
Luxembourg Palace, the, 36
M
"Making the Circle," trying ordeal of Prussian Princesses, 43
Margherita, Queen, 326
Maria II, Queen, 212
Marie Antoinette, 57
Mendelssohn, 31
Midnight drive, an exciting, 150-151
Militarism in Germany, 15 sqq.
Misguided midshipmen, 231-232
Mitsu, Count, 333
Moltke, Field-Marshal von, 30
Montebello, Comte de, French Ambassador, 189-190
Montebello, Comtesse de, 189
Montferrand, M., Architect of St. Isaac's, Petrograd, 91
Moscow, beauty of, 181-182 sqq.
Moscow cathedrals, three famous, 183
Moscow, Imperial Treasury at, splendour of, 184
Music, Germans as lovers of, 22
"Musical chairs" in Japan, 319
N
Napoleon I, 16; coronation of, 50-51; bribes electors of Bavaria, Württemberg, and Saxony, 51
"Napoleon III," 36-37
Narrow escape from drowning of William II, 73
Natural beauties of Brazil, 246
Neva, blessing of the, 121
Newspaper enterprise, 316
Nicholas I, 185-194
Nicholas II, 158, 189, 347 sqq.
Nihilist friends, 104 sqq.
Nikko river, Japan, 331
Nondescript waiters, 184
Novel form of sport, a, 171-172 sq.
O
Old Schloss, Berlin, 34-35; comparison with Buckingham Palace, 39-40
Opera in Lisbon, 221
Organ Mountains, the, 245, 248
Oriental traits in Russian character, 101
Orloff diamond, the, 124
P
Paget, Sir Augustus, 327
Palaeologus, Sophia, wife of Ivan III, 184
Paraguay, 276 sqq.; Extradition Treaty between Great Britain and, 204
Paraguayan race meeting, a, 281
Paraguayan women, attractive, 282
Parana river, the, 277
Patiño Cué, 285 sqq.
Peace Congress between Russia and Turkey in Berlin, 1878, 66 sqq.
Peasant's house in Russia, a, 131-132 sqq.
Pernambuco, 240
Peter the Great, 51, 95, 102-103 sq.
Peterhof, 196; its charming park, 197; a plethora of palaces round, 198
Petrograd, transference to, 76; a disappointing capital, 86; English Embassy at, 89; Palace ball, 119; balls at, peculiarities of, 178; famous Society beauties of, 179; inclement climate of, 193; revisited, 340 sqq.
Petropolis, diversions at, 245-246, 248
Pombal, Marquis de, 230
Portugal, two Kings of, 212
Portuguese bull-fights, bloodless, 214 sqq.; comparison of with Spanish, 216
Portuguese coinage, 228
Portuguese politeness, 220
Potemkin, 343
Potsdam, 71-72 sqq.
Potsdam Palaces, 74-75
Prussian militarism, 15 sqq.
Prussian Princesses, a trying ordeal, 43
"Princesse Château," 95 sqq., 180
Pugnacious Court Pages, 40-41
Q
Quebec, 300
Queen Alexandra attends Alexander II's funeral, 162
Queen Victoria, queenly dignity of, 116
Queen Victoria confers Order of the Garter on Alexander III, 162 sqq.
Quirinal at Rome, the, 14
R
Radziwill, Princess William, 39
"Rag-time" and Rubinstein, 25-26
Rasputin, 348
Rauch, 31
Red-bearded priest, the, 110
Richter, Gustav, 30
Richter, Mme., 31
River Plate, the, 299
"Ring," the, in Berlin, 23
Rio de Janeiro, beauty of, 240
Rome, the Quirinal, 14
Rubinstein and "Rag-time," 25-26
Russia, disappearance of the Court, 13
Russia and Turkey, Peace Congress in Berlin, 66
Russian frontier police, 84
Russian gipsies, 149-150; their fascinating singing, 151-152
Russian illusions, 198-199
Russian Imperial Yacht Club, the, 100
Russian ladies' unchangeable Court fashions, 117
Russian language, difficulties exaggerated, 94
Russian limitations, 102
Russian police, 77
Russian village habits, 146
Russians really Orientals, 101
S
Sadowa, 15
St. Isaac's church, Petrograd, 91; midnight Easter Mass at, 105 sqq.
Salisbury, Lord, and the Congress of Berlin, 1878, 66-69
Scandalized governess, a, 155
Schleinitz, Mme. de, 25
"Schlüssel-Geld," an unpopular tax, 55
Schouvaloff, Count Peter, and the Peace Congress in Berlin, 1878, 66; 180
Schouvaloff, Countess Betsy, 179-180
Secret Police in Russia, the, 99
Seven Weeks' War, the, 15
Shah Jehan, 186-196
Shennan, Mr. David, 261-262
Sigismund, 52
Ski-ing, 168 sq.
Skobeleff, General, 179
Slovenly Russian uniforms, 118
Sobieski, John, King of Poland, routs the Turks, 56
Spanish and Portuguese bull-fights, difference between, 216
Sport in Russia, 128-129
Strauss, Johann, 58; an exacting conductor, 59
"Street of toleration," the, 126
Strousberg, Herr, railway magnate, 31
Stürmer, M., destroyer of the Russian Empire, 158
Sullivan, Sir Arthur, in Petrograd, 93
T
Talleyrand, 50
Tel-el-Kebir, 204
Tetschen, 48
Teutonic Knights, the, 16
Tewfik, 201
Tigre, the, 299
Toboganning in Finland, 174-175 sq.
Tokugawa dynasty, 320
Tokyo, 317
Tokyo, Uyeno Park at, 325; 332
Trinidad, 345
Tsarskoe Park, curiosities in, 193
Tsarskoe Selo, 191 sqq.
Turkey and Russia, Peace Congress in Berlin, 66
Turks, invasion of Hungary, by, in 1683, 56
Turks routed by John Sobieski in 1683, 56
U
Ultimatum to Russia, a young man's, 202
Unusual occupants of a palace, 126
Urbain, the cook, 42
V
Van der Stell, Governor, 197
Vasco de Gama, 237
Victoria, Queen, 42
Victor Emmanuel, 14
Vienna, 48 sqq.
Vienna, delightful environs of, 64
Viennese Court entertainments, 62
Viennese orchestras, 55 sq.
Viennese restaurants and orchestras, excellence of, 55
Viennese women, comeliness of, 57
Villages in Russia, similarity of, 131-132
Vladimir, Grand Duke and death of Alexander II, 159
W
Waddington, M., and the Congress of Berlin, 1878, 67