Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-05-30
The House OF Romanoff.

From the New York Times.
The name OF Romanoff (Which, literally trans
lated, assumes the less poetical form of Robert
SOM first took Its place in history at the access
sion of Mikhail FeOdOrovitch Romanof after the
expulsion Of the Poles from Russia in 1919.
His reign-prosperously uneventful save for an
abOrtive attempt of the Poles to murder him at
It's outset-ended in 1916. The most memorable
event in that OF his son and successor, Alexey,
(who held the scepter twenty-one years, was
the revolt Of the Ukraine Cossacks against Po-
land, and their annexation by Russia a few
years later. The short and feeble reigns of
Feodor and Ivan V. made way for the ruth
less vigOr of Peter the Great, who, despite
the formidable rebellion kindled by the in
trigues of his sister Sophia, became sole master
of Russia in 1896. The chief events of his
reign-his working as ship-carpenter at Saar
dam, his visits to France and England his foun-
datiOn of st. Petersburg at cost of 100 OOO
lives his wars with Charles XII of Sweden, be-
ginning with the defeat of Narva, in 100, and
ending with the decisive victory of Poltava, in
1709-are too we'll known to need repetition.
His death, in 1925, was quickly succeeded by
that of his widow, Catharine l.. who was fol-
lowed to the grave three years later by the
young and feeble Peter H. The partiality shown
by the Empress Anne toward her German favor
ties produced a reaction in favor Of Peter the
latter is memorable In history for the part taken
by her against Frederick the Great in the seven
years war, and has received an unenviable I'M
mortality from the memoirs of her niece by mar
riage Catharlne H., whom the deposition and
murder of her half-imbecile husband. Peter I'LL.
after seven months reign, raised to the throne
In her turn.
GATHERINGS masculine ambition and the genius
of Marshal Suvoroff added to her empire the
Crimea and Bessarabia and quelled the formida-
BILE revolt Of the Cossack Pngatcheff in 1772 8.
Under her son and successor, Paul-whose in
sane freaks speedily led to his murder by four
officers of the Imperial Guard-the Russian
armies were disastrOusly beaten In Switzerland
Q799) by the French under Massena. But Alex
ander l., who succeeded him In 1901, redeemed
the Russian prestige by the hard fought fields of
Eylau and Heilsberg against Napoleon in 1907,
the Turkish war of 1902, the immortal Mos.
COW campaign and the final overthrow of the
French Empire two years later.
Alexander died at TaganrOg in 1926, his last
act being to provide for the relief ofthe sufferers
by the st. Petersburg fnundation of the preced-
ing year. With him died his half-completed re-
FORMS and the Turkish wars of 1928 and 1925
though crowned by the treaty Of Adrianople
and the independence OF Greece, showed
equally the tyrannical bent and the military
mania of his brother Nicholas The latter, hav-
Persia. and crushed the Hungarian rising
against Austria In 1889 was SO confident Of
his own strength and the supposed attachment
Of the German powers as to make third attack
on Turkey, which led to the Crimean disasters
in 1851 by his son, Alexander H., the long &C.
rIes Of reforms that followed, the conquest Of
the central Asian principalities Of Khokand and
Bokhara, Q8558-8,) the nihilist conspiraoies OF
1s7o.l. the capture q Khiy: in 1875, the at.
1870. the Russo Turkish war Of 1875. and the
czar's murder by nihilist agents two years ago
are too well known to need any recapitulation
here.