Omaha daily bee., 1883-03-05
GROWING OF THE CAR.
A Russians Account Of the Cor
gGOuS Spectacle.
The Summons to the Empire
Moscow and the Kremlin.
Brilliant features OF the Ceremony


Brilliant Features OF the Ceremony
ST. PETERSBURG, February Q, 1883.
THE long expected ukase has made
It's appearance. Alexander III. will
be crowned In Moscow on Sunday
the 9th Of May next, and will thus
become by right the czar Of all the
Russians. The coronation is without
exception the grandest, most solemn
and brilliant ceremony In the world,
nothing ever seen or heard Of else
where approaching it's splenor, and for
this reason a full description of It may
be read with interest.
The car while uncrowned has very
little power as a monarch, being, 30 to
say, o minor holding the reins Of state
more by courtesy than by right. He
cannot proclaim war or conclude a
treaty OF peace, nor can he enter the
imperial throne room, or confer the
grand Gordon on any Of the decora-
lions. Ali orders issued by him are
null and void unless countersigned by
two Of the ministers OF state, the body
of which they form part acting
In every respect as regents
of the empire during the
Cars Hpolitlcall minority. During
this perod he has no right to the fifty
ak titles belonging only to crowned
czars, but Is addressed simply as Alex
ander son OF Alexander and, as o mat
ter of etiquette, czar of Russia. Un-
der these circumstance 1t is not singu-
lar that the various czars should have
always fastened their coronation In
Moscow as much as possible, being
naturally unwilling to be under tute.
lage, which In the majority of cases is
obnoxious; and hitherto SUCCESSORS to
the throne have, with very few OK.
captions, been crowned within two
months of the deaths Of their prede-
cessors. In cases where there have
been disputes about the throne, or
where revolutions were threatened,
or where the throne has been
usurped, as it was by Gather.
Inc, the ceremony has taken place
with what may be called Indecent
haste. History informs us that Gath.
Inc stole away while the body of Peter
was yet warm, travelled to Moscow as
fast as horses could carry her, and on
the very day of her arrival there got
crowned; once crowned, she knew
that she was safe. The millions of
Russian peasants cannot believe the
car to be Shy the grace OF God the
most powerful car" unless he has
been anointed at Moscow. Even In
death an uncrowned ear does not
receive the honors due to his
rank, the body Of Peter III.
being deposited In the common church
yard of st. A~thanasius, instead Of
being laid among the czars, in the
great mauaoleum of the CHURCH of st.
Peter and st. Paul within the st.
Petersburg citadel, for although Peter
was emperor, he had not been an.
nointed and crowned. The bodies of
two other uncrowned czars have re-
ceived the same unceremonious burial.
In Russia children who have died
without being baptized do not receive
Christian burial, and to q great extent
IN uncrowned czAr Ia In the same cate.
CORY.
Gle Roe est mort; vive le Roi," Is the
saying throughout the world; but In
the present case 1t has not been 80.
The reasons of the postponment of the
ceremony are not understood by
strangers, who imagine that 1t wal due
to Nihilism. Alexander Ill, like all
the Rsmanoffs, KIN ows not what fear
is; indeed, he would not be q Roman.
off If he did. Had he been afraid of
the ansassins he could easily have been
annolnted and crowned secretly long
ago, instead Of which he means that
the ceremony shall be public and on a
magnificent scale. The reason for the
postponement Is due to nothing more
nor less than the great respect the un.
crowned . has for his departed
father, to whom he was much attach
ed, and whose loss he, In common with
all Russians, still mourns.
SUMMONS AND PREPARATION.
1t has always been the rule to issue
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