1898 map of St. Petersburg, the Russian capital, from a German atlas. Central St Petersburg, or Petrograd, is on the Neva River. Key landmarks include the Peter and Paul Fortress, which served as a prison, Nevski Prospect, a primary boulevard south of the Fortress, the Finland Train Station, east of the Fortress, where Lenin made his triumphal return, the Tauride (Taurisches) Palace, which housed the Duma and later the Petrograd Soviet.

St Petersburg (Petrograd); Neva River, Peter and Paul Fortress; Nevski Prospect, Finland Bahnhof (Train Station); Taurisches (Tauride) Palace

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Monday, July 6, 1914

"Count Czernin having given him to understand that the Austro-Hungarian Government would perhaps be compelled to search for the instigators of the crime of Serajevo on Servian territory, M. Sazonof interrupted him : "No country," he said, "has had to suffer more than Russia from crimes prepared on foreign territory. Have we ever claimed to employ in any country whatsoever the procedure from which your papers threaten Servia? Do not embark on such a course."

May this warning not be in vain.

Paléologue"

Quotation Context

M. Paléologue, French Ambassador at St. Petersburg, writing to René Viviani, President of the Council, Minister for Foreign Affairs, from St. Petersburg, Russia on July 6, 1914.

Source

Collected Diplomatic Documents Relating to the Outbreak of the European War, page 145, publisher: His Majesty's Stationery Office by Harrison and Sons, publication date: 1915

Tags

Petersburg, St. Petersburg