High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lambsdorff's main concerns revolved around the Eastern Question and the proposed administrative reform of the Ottoman Empire. In late 1902 he personally visited Belgrade, Sofia and Vienna to discuss the Balkan impasse with Nikola Pa i , Hristo Tatarchev, Agenor Maria Go uchowski, and their monarchs. In September 1903 he accompanied Nicholas II to Vienna and Mürzzuschlag. Lambsdorff was anxious to prevent the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the face of Slavic nationalism and emphatically condemned the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising and other activities of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization. He was also sympathetic to the Zionist cause, as promoted by Theodor Herzl.The main event of Lambsdorff's tenure in office was the Russo-Japanese War. He proposed to relinquish Russia's impractical ambitions in Korea in order to safeguard her interests in Manchuria. He viewed Pacific politics as something of a sideshow and was steadily sidelined by the jingoist hard-liners from the military.