The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1882-05-07
TIE tzlR's cORONaTIOM
Elaborate Preparations In Moscov-The
Ancient Capital striving TO On,shins ~.
Petersburg The Dangers that viii Iseset
Alexander when he Shows Himself

Alexander when he Shows Himself
Moscow, April lin view OF the ap-
! preaching coronation Of the Car of All the
| lIussds, this qu.ct ultra Russian city the city
| OF famous churches. of dirty and narrow
streets. Of long boards and Ion. kartans Of
stcheH kvn1 AMI mead has suddenly wakennd
to nm unusual ACTIVITY. Moscow. or as the
M"scovites say. Moskva. now recalls the fact
thot she IL tho ancient capital Of the Carbon.
the sacred city tho "templc of orthodoxy
aud the fortress Of autocracy;" that she has
been sung by the iiussun poets far moro than
any other Russian city; that though the
| Northern Palmyra" St. Petersburg has
robbed hor OF hor right of bein.! the capital of
| All tho kutsias. and mtd5 her II widow wear
| ing tile purple" yst shp has strictly preserved
tho unique privilege of browning tho Cars
which she has enjoyed for nearly five centuries.
| Tho coronation festivities usually last for Il
month or 50. and cost tho treasury from
! lOOo0O00 TO 20 0UO.OU0 roublos $4,000. 900 10
$4,000 0OO) which chiefly 40 into the Mosco-
! vitos' pockets. No wonder then. that the Mos
covtos arc now setting themselves to work in
good earnest NJ rcpuying and cleaning tho
strests. painting and kas )miGn. the houses.
! and scrubbinZ things In general. Besides the
| coronation. they nave another REASON for max
| I'M: "a good "A show as possible. During all Of
last year the Moscow Journals most earnestly
urged TINT tho Cars capital be transferred
| back to Moscow. Now. Moscow must provo to
! the hun lrods OF thousands Of Russians whe
VIII come to witness the coronation that she is
! not inferior to her young. proud and Success
| fu rival on tho STORE of tho Baltic. A national
! Industrial exhibition which is 20 bo held hero ut
tho time of the coronation will. OF eouisl. add
| sroat!y TO tho crowds which will thron; the
| ancicnt streets OF Moscow.
Russia had throo successive capitals before
| Moscow. namely. Novgorod. on the Volkhoir;
| kieif, on the Dncper and Vladimir. on the
| Klhsma. Moscow was founded in tho twoIith
| century by Prince Ioury Dutl,nronsv Unns-
| armedl. and III tho inur,rentn century when
! AL the small, inlepcn icnt prsnccd jDis were
annexed 10 tho MuscOv.tQ state. became the
| capital Of RHssia. In the fifteenth century Ivan
| Ill. OF Moscow married Prnc,S.s Spphy. the
| niece OF Constantine. tho last Emperor ui the
| Eastern Roman Empire. SONY lved in Rome.
and when shs came u Moscow abe brought
| along number oil Italian aitist4. ono of these
| the architect Aristotoi fIurayenti immortauz,d
| kroml. the church tower OF Ivan VelIky tthe
Great. Tho highest in l'ussin, and tho uspeHsky
tAssumptionl Cathedral; From That time TO
| tho present day all the Cars and tSartals Of
l!uss!a have been crowned and anointed In
| the Uspensky Cathedral in Moscow.
now gnillcnnt cathe iral could tell withln
1t Ivan tho Terrible stood and took an oath bo-
| fore God that he would b. M eyer-oving father
to his subjects. and YET during the lity years OF
tyrants that ever lived. Metropolitan Philipp,
VINO ano ntea him with chrsin. afterward
called tSn, him mad d1: AMI blessed no hand
| maniac in his bright hours WAS n genius.
Among his statesmen thsro WAS none equal to
heart In that same cathedral stood Theod5r.
the astruler oil the kurik family. which leigned
pear-d in tho cathedral II sly Tartar prince.
| Boris Godunon, who murdered tho Last de-
| brother OF Theodor, and snatchcd tho Cars
crown for himself. by his ukase the free peas
ants were converted into the serfs OF tho
| D0ytrlis, whose land they happened To occupy.
In 1000 the CSpensky Cathedral was polluted
by an mpostor. selic;iiled Dmitry, n tool of tho
body war burned. and his nshes we're fired out
OF a cannon. In the next year Vastly Shooysky.
WI. d.posed by the Boyards. During the m
terr"gnnm from 1910 to islS the Russians
Uspensky Cathedral ior orders.
In iG i TIE oId cath % witnessed the
Il remote relative in the feminine line Of the
Ruriks. though he was o.ocied by tho Ma
tionA Assembly. even the first honanon Car
preferred to call himaclt an autocrat by Gois
sraco instend Of by the will OF the people. as he
was in fact soventy years later two Cars were
Ivan youth OF l6. weak in m,ni and body.
AMI Peter n boy Of 10. Tho young Cars were
erous sister, Sophy. whom Peter. when he at
tanned ms seveni"9nth year. put into = convent
for life. This WAS Peter tho ,Iroat. HIS grand
son Peter the second WAS tho last male ruler
Of the lsomanoit family. and he died when only
Four l.mtle autncrats have been crowned in
the UspeusSy Cathedral. of whom only two
were II the Komanof hoase, Catherine l.. tho
NIIo OF Peter the GrOHt VINO rulou alter her
husbands death. was t,urnan by birth. and OF
low origin. Uatherln. H.. the murdcre,s 81
her husband Peter III. was German princess
OF Anhalt- LorhSt. Anna. tao daughter oi Car
Ivan. sn;ltchol Tho imperial crown WITH blood;
StainSi hands. ~ was s!ln VINO WAS accused u
poisoning tho boy Car. Potter III. E,iHaDsth,
the duu.htc OF Peter tho Great, wls crowned
after having thrown into prison ths baby Car
,Dn lf "A =,
NTH the DEATH Of ElA'b"tl. IN l7di. the house
OF Ronanoif ,was oNtlnSulshed. The son of
Anna. the daugbiar of Peter tho Great. WAS
crowned under the name ~ Potter III. lie wore
Lnroncd and killed by order OF his wife. Catha-
rlne the second. HIS son Paul l.. though
born IDIOT, WAS crowned as au.ocrIt OF All tho
i.l-sias. Four years at"rward he was slran-
gicd by c,onspirators. one oil whom was his own
Of Aexan.!er L., called the i,tssed. NsNt came
Nichnius j. ana Alexander H.. the Lihorttor.
and there thu list Of tho anointed Cars OF Rus
Ii appears. after all. that tho throne OF Rus
sia mas not been always occupied BY members
OF tho Rurik and Romanoh iamiiies; that there
have been seated on tia iartar. "a iioyard. an i'm
pnstor and u number of small German prlncos;
thai The Gar ol to-day. as well as six OF his i'm
mediate predecessors, belongs to tho Holstein-
Gotlorp family; that among those VINO have
idiots. ami murderers oi both sexes; that the
four women VINO welded the sceptre OF Peter
the Great added anytn!n- but honor To the
tn n 'St promlsn. feature Of the history OF
the RUSSIAN rulers.
Tue rite OF tho Car 5 coronation is performed
according 10 the Gu, ON OF the ancient Chris
tlnr rulers and Of tho first HuSSan Cars. On
the appointed day the hShest Il snitarleS Of
the Stale and tle representatives oI all cuHSSos
and tribes found in iitgssla appear nj the Nos
COW kr M. In the U ~ N ky CithelrL. whers
Oud 0l the fourteen rLuHS OF tho clvIl and mill
tlfy officers only The two highest ranks are al
mtte,', the Car standing before tie altar. reads
the OrthodoX tr'do, and tue metropolitan
Hnoints him with cnrl-m. Then he puts ON his
shoulders the imperial purple cloak lined with
crmInc. places ON hS head the imperial crown
taxes Ill one hand the sc"ptrr aud in tho
otllerthe imperial globe (doJaval. aud knees
All present do tho same. vino lie r"nlS aloud
II special prayer lmpUrtGS the Gear oi the
Cars that Lee VIII instruct. enligltan, and
guide him IN tine great ollico of Gar aud judge
Of All tho Russia that ho viii send MN wis
dom Sitting ~ tho heavenly throne; that he Will
preserve his hodrt III has hands IN order " en-
able him To serve for the well belng uf tho peO-
pie inlrusted Lp him and for God = glory splhat
on the day OF the last Jul :mcnt he Will not bc
ashamed Of his dc",ls. t,tusSian Law vol. T.
art. So According 10 tho WI of tne Gar. his
wife may also be anOintsd anl crowned.
After this ceremony the Oar appear, before
tho representatives ot all GLASSES and tribes
Lying nnIpr hiS nSSpmblnJ IN