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As has been noted above, Alexander III. and de Giers had tied their hands by the alliance contracted at Skiernewice in 1884; and the Czar had reason to expect that the Austro-German compact would hold good against him if he forced on his solution of the Balkan Question. Probably it was this consideration which led him to trust to underground means for assuring the dependence of Bulgaria.
If these terms are correctly stated, the treaty was a great triumph for Austria and Germany at the expense of Russia. It is not surprising that the Czar finally broke away from the constraint imposed by the Skiernewice compact. As we have seen, his conduct towards Bulgaria in 1885-86 brought him very near to a conflict with the Central Powers.
The Skiernewice compact, which had been formed for three years, therefore came to an end. Already, if we may trust the imperfect information yet available, France and Russia had sought to break up the Triple Alliance.
It was signed on March 24, 1884, at Berlin, but was not ratified until September, during a meeting of the three Emperors at Skiernewice. M. Élie de Cyon gives its terms as follows: If one of the three contracting parties makes war on a fourth Power, the other two will maintain a benevolent neutrality.
For the present he favoured the cause of peace upheld by his chancellor, de Giers; and in the autumn of the year 1884, as will be shown in the following chapter, he entered into a compact at Skiernewice, which virtually allotted to Bismarck the arbitration on all urgent questions in the Balkans. For the Czar the strain of prolonged warfare against unseen and desperate foes was terrible.
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