The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1883-04-22
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d. PHxxnsBURo, April S.-TAis beautiful,
treaeberous capital and the ancient capital.
Ugly and loyal Moscow are both. for the time
being. turned into dens Of relentless consptr.
atom The Cars crown precious. nay. price,
less. being the symbol Of autocratic preroga-
tivos. b at stake. II b 10 b disposed of-but
how7 During tho ten centuries Of Russian
history how much hlood-imperial. princely
noble. clerical. and common-the blood Of
men. women. and ohildren-has been shed
for the sake Of that golden and jevelled
thinRi They talk Of the price Of this
or that particular diamond set In the Cars
crown. but for the student Of Russian history
all those diamonds soon TO be no more than
human blood crystallzed. Who can calculate
how much II has cost7 And now. II seems. that
crown IL surrounded By horrible destructive
powers OF every kind. The way that leads to 1t
Is believed 70 be undermined. The ancient
cathedral where the coronation ia to be per-
formed Ia. It is feared. charged with modern
explosives. The very air Of the Kremlin seems
to be poisoned. and they are looking for pistols.
daggers, and dynamite bombs about the per-
sons OF those who are TO be witnesses Of the
coming ceremony.
There are three parties now struggling for
the Autocrat's crown. and so conspiring against
each other. For the Cars own party the lues-
ton OF coronation Is o verttabe question OF
TO be. or not to bc." For the Gar coronation
means The preservation 81 bis qutocratie pow;
been postponed too long. and under tho present
circumstances there can be no honorable OK
IN the masters powers are doing their utmost
TO preserve for him the jewe!led crown.
f On the other hand the oonstitptionaiists
Dol on the Taisr's head. Thsy wish to Proclaim
VIII WISH carry ha psn be-
GgSMnsathed 70 them BY the famous Decembrists Of
%ssa s n e. f. the
The Russian .Constitutionalist party embraces
a great majority Of the ciyil and military
almost ali the educated men and women. This
ence, wealth. and knowledge. II 1t possessed q
sss 81 Nh hH Be-
passive power. Il sadly needs . lender ~
The Nihilist fratcrity also claim the imperial
with other autocrntic paraphernalia. II Ia be-
lieyc a. here that their PREPARATIONS for The
asE
OF the Nihiist methods admit that, should the
coming coronation DO interrupted by the ex.
would b. the last, coronation In Russia. Then
fr Essan Es1pIs VIII tRST rn 1assf ina nd
does not want any more coronations." That
sort OF p9Puldr verdict would b more dan
In order to insure the safety of those taking
part part IN tho corSnati9n ceremones; the Cars
TO filtcr the Moscow population through tho
hands OF the police. and IN The second place. to
sand soldier. The hitter task is easv t" accom- COM
Iish though it will he very costly. bnt II can
not answer the purpose at az. Who does not
knowthat bayonets are powerless against dyna-
mite? The task Of nItering the people is ex-
c.edingly difficult; The city Of Moscow has
mine the trustworthiness or untrustworthines
81 each and every Muscovitc, tho Coronation
a%H item wSqS sast two ny but
there are thousands of persons daily coming to
nnd going from Moscow who must not he over.
should single knight Of the bomb DO over
Looked. II, Howe c the imperiai altering OF the
begun; soon We will hear of thousands Of ar
rests in Moscow. AS n rule. the arrested per-
sons will l,c pcaceabe citizens who have VIC
lated only the passport regulations.
=. A very perpleXing dilemma has arisen for the
Coronation Committee to solve. It is rumored
Nihlists. il is very we'll Known that under the
krenlin there are subterranean passages
made Hs9 BY the Cars oy dir
fa ssaad a,sh shs c ds pn
sappers Investigate the old passages would
DO equally dangerous. for who can guarantee
that consprators. disguised as sappers. would
with explosives? SO far the committee has In
vestigatcd the cellars of the tspensky. AS
about the subterrnnean passages is y Of known.
thu hs ,mperi police here are I6i,apt oyer
agents: Alexander Bogdanovttch and Vera Fig
ner. BogdnnOvitch was formerly Captain OF
artillery ana was connested with all the noted
owned a blncksmith shop where manya Nihiiist
was tempered. Under the name Of Koboznfr he
, s,t cheese store in Little Garden street In
S;Ti;st M5ss YsEis%qG' SSs sbiy played ths 15ls
CAPTAIN e Of The the "r rcGes s0Gsas s
n0i &rs mye Should be as
rested and proved to be a Fcninn agent London
would not be more stirred By tho news than tho
Figner. have before me the pictures OF both
beauties. and am at loss TO say which 10 the
the Nhiiist Faith Vera means faith. Vera "a
has received the best possible education She
Singer "na KsaG actress. %e Is
society In this city and eisewhcre sho H Knew no
equal among her, sisters. The Highest rank and
ierred the dangerous lite OF y Nihilist agent.
no How mnny th2Isand roubes she has raised for
ifs S nH and sS
to the Executive Committee. and how many
nobody knows. But there nrs hundreds Of
both civil and military officers whose fate Is
now at her mercy. What punishment will no
but nobody doubts TINT she will have many
powerful protector.
1T il comprehensible." aaid an old civil
officer. what a fascination tho Nihilist Broth
erhood has for women. This Vera Figner. the
tIbn I'M queen o, society. seryrd them in
who could have been a court lady II shs Ind
wished, will be known in history as the chief Of
the rcgicides. could name many FAINT lilies Of
princes nobiemen. clergymen, and rich mer-
chants: who have lost their daughters In the
Nihilist cause"
The Fate or Cardinal Richelieu's Skull
From the Pail Nan Gdge'ts.