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Updated: June 18, 2025
Prince Gallitzin waited until Kaunitz had taken his seat, which he did in a most deliberate manner, then he took the chair opposite. "Your highness has been so good as to look over the new proposals for peace which Russia has offered to Turkey?" asked Prince Gallitzin. "I have read them," replied Raunitz, curtly.
He raised his cold blue eyes with perfect indifference to the smiling face of the Russian, who bowed low, while his host vouchsafed him a slight inclination of the head. Prince Gallitzin seemed to be as unconscious of this haughty reception as of the fact that Kaunitz had not moved forward a singe step to greet him.
"They are these: that the right of the Sultan to appoint the Khan of the Crimea and the Hospodar of Wallachia remain untouched. If Russia will recognize the sovereignty of the Porte in that quarter, then Austria will induce him to withdraw his pretensions in Tartary." "And to leave to Russia the territory she has conquered there?" asked Gallitzin with his ineffable smile.
But the sight of our distress emboldened Beningsen; this chief of the staff prevailed upon Strogonof, Gallitzin, and Miloradowitch, with a force of more than fifty thousand Russians, and one hundred pieces of cannon, to venture to attack at daylight, in spite of Kutusoff, fourteen thousand famished, enfeebled, and half-frozen French and Italians.
The empress nodded her head, and, just then, the door opened, admitting a page who handed two letters on a golden plate. "The answer of Prince Gallitzin," said he, bowing and retiring. Maria Theresa opened the letters, which were unsealed, saving "Now we have every thing requisite.
He traversed with unruffled courtesy the distance that separated him from Austria, and offered his hand with the grace of a finished courtier. Kaunitz raised his languidly, and allowed it to rest for a moment in the palm of his cordial visitor. "See, what a propitious incident," said Prince Gallitzin; "Austria and Russia have given each other the hand.
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