The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-03-04
Court Lib IN Rnnnia

Alexander III. y sanef and = hs>v.,
man than his father. The melsncS"iis
which = hereditary in the Romano6
Ismlly preserved the late Car Tor ananv
yean. The Car Nicholes ~ "a 81
nave died Of 9evastopol- but he was dv.
1n o. mea4ncholy long before 6evaefo
~. The hostility between the late and
present Car commenced almost ffnm
the day Alexander III. became Cxaro.
wen, and bad Ito principle origin In m
9nlueky .Dolg0r0uSki. When. after the
death Of the Cars eldest son. Alexan-
DER became presumptive heir. md ~
married to the beautiful Princese Dao.
mar, the Do]g0r0uski was in the heieht
OF her power. After q thousand unrea-
s0nab!e requests, she insisted that the
Ear should bring his lovely daughter
!n-Iaw t. see her. The impoesibility of
u was made known to her, but she in
sisted that q stratagem should be used
70 accomplish her design. The madness
Of the Gar can hardly be estimated in
agreeing to this prep0sterous proposal.
put he invited the Princess Dagmar to 1
drive with him. He stopped with her
ut the D0lgOr0uski's house, and repre-
senting her as lady Of high rank, and
Of ardent devotion to the royal family,
the unsuspecting Princess went in. So
agreeable did she fluid her visit that It
was said the Car would have been glad
to have curtailed it. As it was, they
were absent nearly the whole day.
When they returned the truth came out.
The indignation Of the Czarovich knew
no bounds, the Empress was i'll from
shame and anger: and the King Of Dem
mark sent manly remOnstranco to the
indignity that had been offered his
daughter. From that to the end was
y cOldness between father and son that
increased as years went on, and, indeed,
the Duchess of Edinburgh was the ONLY
one Of his children with whom the late
Car was OH affection ste terms. The
day of the Princess Dagmar's en-
trance into st. Petersburg is still
remembered. she rode in . mag
nificent open carriage with the En-
press, who was then u pretty md inter
esting woman. The dazzling beauty Of
the Princess Dagmar, then thought to
lie superior to her sisters, the Princess
Of Wales, was the admiration Of mobiles
and peasants. The Car and the Gar
Ovich rode on each side of the carriage
forms Of white and silver: The popu-
larity Of the Princess Dagnlar has a.
ways been great, partly owing to her
many charms, and partly to her devotion
to the first CzarOvich, who was the dar-
ling of the Russian people and who died
ut Nice of consumption.
THE COMING CORONATION.
The preparations for the Emper0r's
coronation are going on actively. He
still dwells at the Annitch Rolf Palace,
and, it is said, practices none Of the pre-
cautions that his father did. Instead of
the studiOus irregularity in his daily
habits which his father observed, he
does everything i'm the same hour each
day. There are plenty Ut rumOrs Of whas
he says and does, but there are really no
means Of finding out the truth Of any
Of the wild reports that are circulated
from day to day. The censor Of the
press il always ready and on the spot to
see that nothing ''impendens" goes in
to the journals, but, occasionally, ut the
last moment, something that was
thO't harmless in news or critics Is for
bid<len-and the only thing to be done
is to b!acken the columns where the OBJ
ject;onable articles are printed. Some
DAYS every issue of the U0l0s or N0vOe
Ircn,yes has great gap IN its columns,
showing where nn article has been cut
out, hut this method is troublesome, and
only rpsorted to Occa sionally. On the
whole. life in Russia has some disadvan-
tagts, but who that ever enjoyed the
charming society IF Russians Ofthe hest
class, 80 cosmopolitan, 50 polished, unit
ing French and IN English charm,
would not dwell in st. Petersburg, If
there were no police :-.X0ckhoim Corr.
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