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The Unfulfilled, or Count Pyotr Shuvalov's New Year's Visit to Berlin (a not-quite-historical fantasy)

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The Unfulfilled, or Count Pyotr Shuvalov's New Year's Visit to Berlin (a not-quite-historical fantasy)
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What is certain is that on January 11–12, 1887, they traveled from Berlin to St. Petersburg on the same train—Count Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov and Sir Robert Morier. They met and conversed on the train. But for Pyotr Shuvalov, his New Year's visit to Berlin to see his brother Pavel was merely a cover for his secret mission—negotiations with German Chancellor Prince Bismarck. Ultimately, they agreed on a draft of a Russo-German treaty, later dubbed the "Reinsurance Treaty." The text of the treaty reflected the age-old, never-fulfilled, desire of Russian rulers to seize the "keys to the southern doors" of their home—the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits. And this desire represented, among other things, such a surprising concoction of fateful coincidences and fateful alternatives...

Stop right there. "Why don't Shuvalov and Morier talk about this?" — I thought, after all, they knew a lot about what lay behind the facade of official politics and diplomacy. And here I needed my imagination...
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