The war came very near being renewed the following year through the massacre of the Russian Legation at Teheran, but it was averted by prompt disavowal by the Persian government, and the further fact that Nicholas was engaged in war with Turkey. The result, however, was that Persia became day by day more subject to Russian influence, to the great disgust of England, where the so-called Eastern question was taking possession of the public mind, and the dread of Russia's advance toward India became the British bugaboo which it has remained to the present day.
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From General Nelson A. Miles
Thrilling Stories of The Russian-Japanese War, 1904
