The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1881-07-15
The Russian Emperor's SulIen Retire.
ment ut Gatachin.

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BERLIN, June GA Russian friend
ENDS me the following striking picture
If the state of Imprisonment into which |
recent events have thrown the car:
sThe emperor still broods in sullen re- J
.irement in the castle of CATCHING. His |
majesty has paid only two or three flu |
gitive visits to the capital during the
last month. On the last occasion he
was to attend the funeral coytege of the
late Prince Oldenburg to The railway
station. His majesty's place was duly
marked out in the official programme,
but no two persons who saw the pro-
hind the bier or not, and the newspa-
pers all contradicted each other rs TO
the cars presence. The most proba-
BILE version seems to be that he awaited
the late princes remains at the railway
station. There is no relaxation in the
vigilance exercised at CATCHING. Gen.
Count Vorontzoff. Dachkof is reported
to have been unable to get on with his
imperial master, and to have been
obliged to leave him for time; while,
on the other hand, it is stated that the
count has injured his leg and is obliged
to keep himself quiet. 1t has not yet
TRANSFERRED which story is the true one.
The contradiction of the first reports as
to the way in which the village of
Gatchina was protected, a contradiction
drawn up by Count Vorontzoff-Dach-
koff himself, does not apply to the vi
cinity of the palace, which is strictly
guarded and watched. A short time
ago two of the young grand dukes,
cousins of the emperor, were stopped
in the grounds by Cossack, who
threatened to spear them if they adj
vanced. A friend who had occasion to
visit the castle to see an official, tells
me that as soon as he left the railway
station and took The direction toward
the palace, he felt conscious that the
eyes of the police were following him,
but it was only when he was about to
cross the bridge over the castle moat
that he was actually stopped. Here the
police officials were all officers. They
ascertaiued his business and escorted
him to the service gate of the palace,
the only one which is allowed to be APP
preached. He at once found himself in
the police office, surrounded by officers
His passport was taken, and his dis.
scription, the time of day, and business
were all duly noted in book, which
the chief of police is supposed to exam.
inc every day. An officer was then
sent to inform the official inquired for
while my friend was kept by the police
On the officer returning with message
that the official could be seen, my friend
was escorted by the police officer down
the long corridors to the room of the
person he wished to sec. All the way
Cossacks sentinels, with drawn swords
were tramping up and down. 1t can
readily be imagined that no official OF
the palace, however high he may be
placed, is particularly overioyed al
present by the visits of his friends. My
acquaintance was therefore .exhorted,
for the love of heaven, to confine his
conversation to the merest common
places, and not to stay too long. When
he got to the train on his return Jour-
ney he felt heartily glad and fortunate,
although he could not shake off the
sensation that the police were still at
his back. Looking out of the windows
of the corridor into the courtyards, OF
which there are four within the castle
walls, he saw innumerable stacks of
piled muskets, denoting the presence of
large force of infantry, and on the
open place in front of the palace were
plcketed the horses of about squadron
OF cavalry. Persons whose business
calls them daily to the palace and who
are we'll known, are vigorously searched.
For example, priest, employed in the
service of the imperial chapel, was
lately subjected to such close inspec-
ti1m that even his cigarettes wore not
toned at each Of the doors of the sleep
ing apartments of the emperor, the
empress and the heir apparent during
the night. The last named complains
continually of the restraint put upon
his movements since his fathers Access
sion to the throne. He is not allowed
to go out riding in the park, which
particularly annoys him. None of the
officers or court officials are allowed to
be away from the palace more than two
or three hours at time, and all are
obliged to be in before 8 O'Clock in the
evening. The court will soon remove
to Peterhof, which has small port at
the mouth of the Neva. Here four
will be anchored, and no
other vessels will be allowed TO go
near. The two yachts, Slavianka and
Czarevna, will always be in readiness
to convey the emperor to and from
st. Petersburgh, accompanied on either
side by a torpedo boat, manned with
four marines"
The state police, or the old third Sec
ton under new name, is being tho
roughly re-organized by M. Plome, its
new chief, and the secret communica-
tions of its agents are not even to be
shared by the assistants in the depart
ment, but are to be strictly confidential
between the chief and his spies.