" I've been staying abroad and reading the papers, and I must own, up to the time of the Bulgarian atrocities, I couldn't make out why it was all the Russians were all of a sudden so fond of their Slavonic brethren, while I didn't feel the slightest affection for them.

I was very much upset, thought I was a monster, or that it was the influence of Carlsbad on me.

But since I have been here, my mind's been set at rest.

I see that there are people besides me who're only interested in Russia, and not in their Slavonic brethren.