ABSTRACT
The relations of Russia to Germany are of confusing and complication character, which changes the circumstances and personalities. The governing class in Russia, the German ideas not only inspires but it has been largely recruited from men of German stock and manifests all the contempt and hatred which is characteristic of the German bureaucracy for the ideals of democracy, liberty, and free thought. The two Governments are always ready to combine against popular insurrections, and in particular against every attempt of the Poles to recover their liberty. The Russian temperament is radically opposing the German courtesy. And this opposition of temperament is likely to be deeper and more enduring than the sympathy of the one autocracy with the other. The ancient dream of Russia possesses Constantinople that countered by the new German dream of a hegemony over the near East and after several years this political opposition is the determining factor in the relationship of the two Powers.
