Suchergebnisse

The turn to the East: Prince Ferdinand I of Bulgaria in the Diplomatic Papers of Austria-Hungary 1894–1899. The monograph examines the period in which, after solving the issue of the Bulgarian crisis, the danger of a real conflict with the Russian Empire and the creation of the Bulgarian dynasty, the prince and the state faced the problem of gaining international legitimacy. The time is a dynamic and fateful in which the Principality is slowly but surely making a major foreign policy turn from the West to the East in the name of the national interests. Based on sources mainly from the Austro-Hungarian archives, the book reveals the doubts and the subsequent strategic failure of Vienna in maintaining its role in Bulgaria.