The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-12-23
TROUBLES OF THE CZARINA
TIE CAR REFUSES HER PERMISSION
TO WINTER IN THE RIVIERA.

He Objects to Her Meeting Relatives at
Cannes-Last sad Visit to Nice--The Dye
ing Wishes of Her Betrothod--lL De
Giers's Troubles--Other Foreign News.
LONDON, Dec 22.-Ths relations between
Great Britain and Russia are daily becoming
more strained. In order to mark the bitter
ness Of his feeling against England, the czar
recently recaI.d his ambassador from Lon
don, leaving the important questions now
pending between the two countries to be
transacted by a mere charge d'afRaires.
Lord Salisbury has now rstaliated by sum-
moning the Queens Ambassador, Sir Robert
Morier, to London, on an altogether trivial
prstext, and it is not likely that he will re-
turn to his post at st. Petersburg until the
political situation assumes more peaceful
aspect. OF course the czar is furious about
the manner in which Prince Alexander was
received at the English court, and ON the
/ other hand, his objection to the candidature
Of Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Coburg, has
given great oifense to the royal family here
1t appears that after all neither the csare-
witch nor the czarina is to spend the winter
in the south of France, as had originally been
arranged. The czar is chagrined by the con-
| duct both of the Orleans family and of Prince
| Waldemar in all the Bulgarian difficulty that
he is determined at ali costs to prevent his
wife coming into contact either with her
brother or with the Due de Chartres family,
all Of whom are spending the winter at
Cannes.
The empress last visit to the south Of
France was pade twenty years ago under
Singularly sad circumstances Betrothed at
the time to the present czar's elder brother,
she was summoned to his bedside at Nice in
order to receive his last adieus when no died
there Of consumption. 1t was at his request
that she became the wife of the present czar,
whom she did not know at the time, and who
presented an absolute contrast both mentally
and physically to her dead lover. The symp-
toms of the young czarewitch are sngularly
similar to those of his dead uncle, and in
view of the terrible unhealthiness of st.
Petersburg it is absolutely necessary that he
should winter in the south.
It appears that NJ de Giers has been deeply
chagrined by the czar's recently acquired
habit of corresponding directly with the
foreign minister's subordinates at the various
foreign courts The greatest confusion has
resulted therefrom, the instructions trans
ullUGou 10 Jub various euVOyS dDTOdu UdluR
| frequently in direct contradiction with those
received direct from the czar. Moreover,
the intimate encourage of the latter, and
especially the military element, are distinctly
hostile to M. de Giers, whom they object to
on the ground of his German parentage and
his Protestant creed.
1t is probable that he will be succeeded by
Prince Lobanoff, the ambassador Vienna,
who being one of the decendants Of Rurik,
considers his lienage as equal if not superior
to the house of Holstein Gottorp, now on
the throne Of Russia. So Independent ID he
that on one occasion when the Grand Duke
Vladimir telegraphed to him at Vienna, II
arrive tomorrow night P elare apart
menBs for me at the embassy" he tele-
graphed back "Your imperial highness
must go to hotel; cannot place rooms at
your disposal The grand duke arrived,
took up his quarters at the hotel, and then
went to call on the ambassador, who re-
ceived him at the entrance of his salon, hay
ing purposely neglected to be present either
at the railway station or at the hotel. Prince
LobanoR is an exceedingly wealthy bache-
lor, and, besides being one Of the foremost
statesmen of Europe, is distinguished liter
ateur, who has written a we'll known mono
graph on Mary Stuart Queen of Scots, and
possesses a valuable collection of her letters
and relics.