ABSTRACT
From Paris I went on, by way of Petersburg, to the Crimea, where I stayed in a house belonging to the Ministry of Ways and Communications, on the road from Yalta to Livadia. [The Emperor was then in residence at Livadia] and also nearby were Count Lambsdorff, Kuropatkin, Sipiagin, Grand Duke Michael Nikola-evich, and, of course, Baron Freedericksz. 1
