Count Louis de 433â6, 437, 445, 447, 450, 472, 651 n 2
Rodd, Sir Rennell ( later 1st Baron Rennell) 405
Romania:
   Austro-Romanian relations 81â2, 114, 115, 278â9, 400, 401, 414
   Balkan Wars (1912-13) 42, 258, 275â6, 278
   border disputes with Bulgaria 91, 275â6
   monarchy 170
   press 405
   realignment towards Triple Entente 278â9, 398, 406
   territorial claims in Austro-Hungary 278, 414, 424, 452
Romanians, in Hungary 66, 71, 81â2, 91, 397, 398, 404
Roosevelt, Theodore 76, 179, 182, 228, 512, 580 n 41
Rossiya (journal) 230, 232
Roth, Joseph, The Radetzky March 73, 378
Roumelia 126
Rouvier, Maurice 157, 194
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria 72, 106
Rukhlov, Sergei 220
Runciman, Walter ( later 1st Viscount
Runciman of Doford) 543
Russia:
   Anglo-Russian Convention (1907) 87, 111, 123, 139â40, 158, 167, 174, 187â8, 322â4, 325â6, 363, 536, 545â6
   Council of Ministers 177â8, 185â90, 220, 346, 418, 475
   Crimean War (1853-56) 136, 250
   economy 308, 311â13, 324, 326â7, 331â2
   Franco-Russian Alliance (1892-94) 123, 127â31, 132, 138, 139, 143â4, 153â4, 191, 293â4, 304â8, 313, 350â51, 444, 475, 505â6, 548, 557, 559
   German declaration of war against (1 August 1914) 527
   loans from France 308, 312, 332, 352, 419â20
   pan-Slavism 17, 78, 126, 190, 229, 236, 279â80, 418, 484
   Potsdam Accord (1910) 167, 189
   preparations for war 475â87, 495â6, 503â515, 524â7
   press 80, 226â7, 229, 230, 231â2, 235, 264â5, 307, 420
   Racconigi Bargain (1909) 93, 244
   railways 139, 223, 305, 308, 322, 331, 352, 420, 421
   Reinsurance Treaty with Germany (1887) 121, 125â6, 127, 129, 130, 143, 181, 197
   Revolution of 1905 186
   Three Emperorsâ Leagues (1873/1881) 79, 83, 125, 126, 128
   trade treaties with Germany 128, 144, 272
Russian air force 479
Russian army:
   expenditure 215, 217, 218, 238, 267, 328, 331â2
   mobilizations: (1912) 266, 267â9, 283, 477, 481; (1914) 468, 473, 475â80, 482â4, 486, 496, 503â515, 524â7, 530, 535â6, 553â4
   rearmament and redeployment 31, 219â20, 223, 238, 267, 304, 311â12, 328, 331, 351â2, 419â21, 474, 547
   size 331â2, 420, 468
Russian navy:
   Black Sea fleet 136, 153, 340, 341, 421, 477, 485, 557
   expenditure 421
   Franco-Russian Naval Convention (1912) 131, 304, 540
   losses in Russo-Japanese War 153
   mobilization 477, 536
   see also naval talks, Anglo-Russian
Russkoe Slovo (newspaper) 226
Russo-Japanese War (1904-5) 81, 87, 140, 152â3, 154, 157, 159, 166â7, 177, 184, 186, 231, 323, 426, 474
Russo-Turkish War (1877-78) 125, 250, 273
Ruthenes 67, 70, 71
Å abac 57
St Petersburg 434, 552â3
   French embassy 434â5
   Krasnoye Selo 447
   military district 478, 483
Salisbury, Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of 139, 361, 591 n 64
Salonika (Thessaloniki) 253, 255, 256, 459, 574 n 128
Salza and Lichtenau, Baron Hermann von 416
Sambre, River 494, 549
Samoa 151, 152, 163
Samouprava (Serbian newspaper) 230, 287
Samuel, Herbert ( later 1st Viscount Samuel) 543
San Giovanni di Medua (Medva) 283
San Giuliano, Antonino Paternò-Castello, Marquis di 246â7, 248, 406, 427
Sanderson, Sir Thomas 139
Sanjak of Novi Pazar 28, 43, 256, 262, 300â301, 612 n 60
Sarajevo 367â76
Sarantaporos pass 253
Save, River 469
Savinsky, Alexander 277, 361
Sazonov, Sergei, Russian foreign minister 71, 159, 192, 225, 227, 346, 359, 389, 420,