The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1878-07-06

have them watched with the utmost
vigilance. If they escape you will loose
your head. Such are the orders of Her
Majesty, our new Empress Elizabeth. p
In the mean time Elizabeth had been
proclaimed everywhere as the legitimate
Czarina. :.
The old Russian party supported her,
except the ecclesiastics, who refused to
believe in the story that Ivan III was
dead. That story was circulated by
Elizabeth and her instruments, and the
most rigorous measures were adopted to
prevent any body from circulating the
report that the young Gar was still
alive.
Meanwhile Ivan and the Inflated
parents remained for eighteen months at
Riga, then they were taken to the
gloomy State Prison at Dunamunde,
from which young Ivan was transferred
to the fortress at Oranienbaum, while
his parents we're sent 10 Castle Kolomo-
gori, where they were better treated,
but Anna died there heart-broken in
March, 1746. Her husband survived
there twenty-nine years longer.
At Oranienbaum the boy Gar was
purposely made an idiot, and, horrible
to say, a drunkard. His keepers gave
bin, when he was only seven years old,
six or seven bottles of strong wine daily.
They gorged him with indigestible food,
and treated him as if it was their
bounden duty to deaden his mental
faculties.
But even in Russia, at that gloomy
period, prison walls were not thick
enough to prevent these horrors from
becoming known to the people. Eliza
beth bad become unpopular, and the old
Russians began to raise boldly the cry OF
"Long live the Gar IvanW
A fanatical monk, whose name is un-
known, succeeded in abducting Ivan III
from Oranienbaum. But he was pur-
sued, and caught with the precious boy
at Smolensk.
The Eso1k was cruelty tortured to
death, but refused to divulge the names
of his aceomplices.
What became Ct ivan in the next few
years is unknown, but in 1856 he was a
prisoner in subterranean cell at a con-
vent on Lake Valdal
In the month of August of that year
Count Shouvaloff, Elizabeth's favorite,
took him to ST. Petersburg, where the
Empress saw her victim.
Ivan the Third, at that time, was a
disgusting idiot. She tainted, and when
he left the room she exclaimed:
"Great God! Great God! Can !
have done thisT'
Nevertheless, she sent him to cell in
the fortress of Schlusselburg, where
they gave him plenty to eat, more to
drink and fine clothes, for the idiot Gar
had become ridiculously vain of his
personal appearance.
Elizabeth died on the 10Th of Decem-
Der, 1861, and Peter the Third, the hus-
band of Catharine of Anhalt-Zerbst,
who became in less than two years
ruler of Russia, became Gar. He
then only learned that Ivan was still
alive. He visited the poor idiot at
Schlusselburg, and was horror-struck at
his appearance.
Poor youthp' he said compassion
ately to Ivan; "suppose | take you to
st. Petersburg. There | and my wife
Catharine will make life pleasant for
you"
Ivan flew into paroxysm of rage.
81 will kill youp he cried, "you
and Catharine both. / will kill both of
youp
Peter III rushed in terror from the
cell, and ordered Ivan to be taken to
the terrible Fort Wexholm, in Lake
Ladoga. During the trip thither Ivan
and his keepers were nearly drowned.
Peter was murdered on July 9, 1862,
by order of his wife, Catharine, who i'm
mediately caused Ivan Ill to be
brought back to his dungeon at Schlus-
selburg.
There he remained four years, when
most terrible catastrophe that put a
summary end to his ill-starred life took
place.
One of the Lieutenants of the garri
son of Schlusselburg was young Vassilli
Mirovitch, grandson of the famous
comrade-in-arms of Mazeppa, in the war
of Charles XII against Peter the Great.
Peter the Great had confscated the
vast estates of the rebel Mirovitch,
whose grandson had yainly implored the
Empress Catharine to restore his patri-
mony to him.
When he found ont that Ivan was
confined at Schlus,elburg, Vassilli Miro
witch Immediately plotted for his liberia
ton.
He came near attaining his object, for
forty soldiers of the garrison penetrated
with him into the prison, after MORALLY
wounding the Colonel, Alexei Beredori-
koff, and they reached the door of lvan's
dungeon.
Mirovitch broke it open with an ak,
but, when he entt red the dungeon, he was
confronted by two leering scroundrels
named Vlasief and Threkin, who asked
him what he wanted.
" Where is the Gar Ivan?" he cried.
"There he lies deadw they replied,
sneeringly. "We have just cut his
throat"
"By whose orders?" he cried, furi-
ously.
BY orders of Her Majesty Catharine
the Second"
They seized and shackled him.
The sJldiers rushed back to their
quarters.
Mirovitch's tongue was cut out and
he was then beheaded.
This was the last act in the terrible
tragedy of Ivan's life"
Debasing Coin.
The most extensive fraud perpetrated
on gold coinage is "splitting.' The
operator uses fine saw to split the coin
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