The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-03-23
lBIAN AND DEMOCRAT BIOOMSBURG COLUMBIA COUNTY PA
The Coming Coronation.


There are great preparations going
on at the present time in st. Petersburg
and Moscow for coronation, which is
to take place in May. Already many
hundreds of horses are being transferred
from the imperial stables of St Peters
burg TO Moscow. The number of these
animals required for the occasion may
b. surmised from the fact that the min
lister of the imperial household has is
sued an order to engage l,200 volun-
teers as stablemen in addition TO the
regular men in the employment. Thir-
ty-six gilded closed carriages and four
gilded open carriages are to be sent to
Moscow for the occasion. These vehi-
cles must, of course, be more imposing
than comfortable, since they mostly be-
long to the style of carriage made q
century and even more ago. Most of
them were constructed in the beginning
of the eighteenth century, while others
were made in the reigns of Alexander
|. and Nicholas l. Conspicuous among
them is the magnificent gilded carriage
presented to the empress Elizabeth of
Russia by Frederick the Great in 1746,
These forty carriages, with the invited
guests, will be drawn by 1888 horses,
tfty-nine of which have been recently
imported from Hanover expressly for
the purpose, and are reported TO be a
splendid set of horses--all alike as
peas and all of magnificent bay
shade.
Two ermine lined purple coronation
mantles have been ordered of the dealer
in furs, Grunwald, of Moscow. These
nantes are to be about seven yards in
length, with an imperial eagle embroid-
cred in gold on the back of each of
them. The dress which is to be worn
by the empress at the coronation is be-
ing embroidered in the famous ateier
of Loman, in Moscow. 1t will consist
of finely woven silver cloth, all en-
broidered in silver, garland of en-
broidery nearly yard wide running
around the bottom of the skirt and
covering the train. The train alone,
consisting almost entirely of silver, is
to weigh more than twenty pounds.
The old capital of Russia is to display
the greatest hospitality on that occa-
sion. All the numerous monasteries,
all private houses, are undergoing re
pairs in order to offer accommodation
to the expected guests. None of the
persons Summoned for the occasion to
Moscow by the imperial decree are TO
be quartered in hotels the houses of
the nobility, of the notables and of the
dignitaries of the church, are open to
those. The Metropolitans of ST. Peters
burg and of Kief, who are to crown
the Gar, are to have splendid set of
rooms in the two large historic monas-
teries of Moscaw, and likewise will be
accommodated the other twelve prel.
ates who are TO ofiiciate at the cora
nation.
The mobiles of the government of
Moscow, in council assembled, have de-
cided to offer the traditionary bread
and salt to the. monarch on plate
which is to cost 5000 rubles. They
have resolved to give ball to the En-
peror at which, in order to avoid
crowd, but 2,7O0 persons will be pres
ent, though the house of the nobility
in Moscow may easily contain over
1000 guests. Fifteen thousand rubles
have been voted for the decoration of
the ball room, as much more for the
restoration of furniture, and all ex,
penses considered, the ball to be given
by the nobility is very likely to cost
100000 rubles, which sum will be lev
led as self-imposed tax from the in
come OF the landed proprietors of the
government of moscow, who are all ca
ger TO extend their hospitality to the
Car and Czaritza.
A ruble is Russian silver coin
worth from Is to so cents according to
the date of coinage