You know how this ended.
'When my father received from the Government of India the letter informing him that a British Mission was about to proceed to Kabul, he read it out in durbar.

The members of the Russian Embassy were present.

After the reading was finished, Colonel Stolietoff rose, saluted the Amir and asked permission to leave Kabul.

If permitted, he would, he said, travel without delay to Tashkent, and report the state of affairs to General Kauffmann, who would inform the Czar, and thus bring pressure to bear on England.

He promised to return in six weeks or two months, and urged the Amir to do everything in his power meanwhile to prevent the British Mission from reaching Kabul.
'Colonel Stolietoff never returned to Kabul.