Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-05-22
GUARDlN rHE CZAR.
Eighty GOssack~ ut the Door OF the
Inperial Bed Chamber. .a

A correspondent of the London Tele-
graph gives the following account of the
precautions taken to protect the life OF
Alexander Ill: A few days sitter the
fatal catastrophe of the 18th March the
Russiaa ministers resolved on begging the
Emperor to reside in one of the numerous
palaces outside capital. The explosion
in the Winter Palace, the mine in the
Malala SadovHla. many other attempts of
which the public know nothing, and,
above all, the tragic death of the late Gar,
has proved to them beyond doubt that in
St. Petersburg neither the devotion of
nine tenths Of the popu alton, nor the III
creasing vigilance of N inisters, police and
sc, 900, soldiers could guard their imperial
IN .ster from the murde Gus attacks OF q
small band of desp9 crate meu and women.
the Emperor showed some reluctance at
first to leave A nit, hKof PLACE, where be
h S speht so many happy days as Cz,rev-
Itch, but orsented when Lo ris Mellkott
remiUde1 him that he was surrounded on
three sides by private houses fr m the
c+tlnrs of viii h. at that very moment
Nihiist miscreants might be cutting their
way to his palace in spite Of me greatest
Wetchfulness on the part Of the police.
las the Emperor has decided never to
live ia any of his father S f,vorite resi-
dences, the Winter Palace, Tsarskoe Selo
snd Livadia, for reasons easily guessed,
orders were sent to prepare the palace at
Gate inc "a small town about thirty miles
to the sou h w est of st. Petersburg), for the
Imperial Court. Several hundred artisans
and mechanics, all soldiers of the Preob-
r ,jinsky L gment the Russian soldier is
thoroughly taught some trade, and allowed
10 earn IN ,ney byit while off duty-were
selected to n Ike the necessary alterations
At midnight they Assem- bed in the church
a. CATCHING, and solemnly swore never to
reveal that nature of the work they were
about to undertake. Death or Siberia was
the penalty if they broke the oath; q
"krnassny" 90 rou bIes, or Il shillngs,) was
the reward If they were silent and INDUS
trlous. The alterations were made in
forty -eight hours, but secrecy was not kept
much longer Vodka loosened the tongues
of the soldiers, and soon all CATCHING was
talking in whIspes of the precautions
Ia ken to preserve the life OF the Gar.
"A subterr mean passage leeds from his
bad room to the stables, where number
of horses are kept saddled and bri!led- day
and nj. It, SentInels are posted at intervals
of twenty yards all round the building.
The imperial bedroom, which has two
wiz uws protected at night by massive
iron shutters, Cab only be reached from
the outside ny passing through three
spacious aute-cnambers in which are post
ed eighty Cossacks arm ed to the teeth
They are slowed to speak and move about
in the two outer rooms, but in the hall
joining the Cars bedroom perfect silence
is namlt4ined all night The general on
service for the day sits in an easy chair.
his Cossacks on divan. which runs round
the whole room. AT the generals right
b and is the push of an. electric apparatus.
h nh, holl in
within the palace grounds. When, the
Emperor is. about to retire to rest, before
shutting ms door he remov the outer
handle, sathst NO entrances can be effected
til he himself personally opens the door
from the inside. Unlike his late father, ne
cannot en- dure the presence Of AZ armed
soldier IN his bed cham Der. y