The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-21
MANY ROYAL RUSSIANS.
There are Twenty-four Princes Who
are Grand Dukes.

are Grand Dukes.
From The London Pail Nall Gazette.
There are at present over twenty Russian
princes who are entitled to be styled grand
duke, says the Pail Mall Gazette. A few
years ago there were still more, but a
statute of the imperial family, dated July
IA, 1886, limited the titles of grand duke
and grand duchess to sons, daughters,
brothers. sisters, and grandchildren by the
fathers side of the czars. The statute
practically deposed number of magnifi-
Goes who up to that time had supposed
themselves and had been generally believed
by others to be grand ducal It gave the
inferior title of highness to other
grandchildren of the czars and to
their first-born male descendants,
and to all remaining descendants, by the
male line. of czars it gave the minimum
princely rank of most serene highness. In
addition to the car himself and his three
sons nicholas, George and M ohaeD, his
four brothers vladimir, Alexis, Sergius
and PAUL, his three uncles Constantine,
Nicholas and MichaeD, his three nephews
Cyril, Boris and Andrew, and his eleven
cousins nicholas, Constantine, Dsmetrius,
Nicholas, Peter, Nicholas, Michael, George,
Alexander, Sergius and Alexis) legitimately
enjoy the title of grand duke. There are
N
dukes Michael, and two grand dukes
Alexis, Sergius, George, Alexander, and
Constantine. Fortunately, every Russian,
besides his own name and that of his family,
has patronym which materially helps to
distinguish him from other people. The
five Nicholasses, therefore, are not so easily
to be mistaken for one another as at first
sig 1T may appear. One is Nicholas Con-
stantiEovitch, another is Nicholas Alexan-
drovitch, and third is Nicholas Michaelo-
witch. But the system, good though it is.
will not stand unlimited strain upon it,
and in this matter of Nicholas it has broken
down. There are two Russian grand dukes
Nicholas Nicholaievitch, and they have to
suffer the humiliation of being numbered,
just as if they were convicts or stalls at the
opera.
Of the Russian grand dukes, the most i'm
portant are the three ulcles of the car.
The eldest, Consta ntine Nj holaivetch, j. in
his 62d year, and besides being a general on
land is general admiral at sea. He
used in his brothers reign, to be also presi-
dent of the council of state, but since the
accession of his nephew he has fallen into
kind of splendid disgrace, and at Oriala, in
the Crimea, he now keeps court of his own,
from which he seldom or never emergas.
He married princess of Saxe-Alten burg,
and has five children, one of whom is the
queen of the Hellenes. Although he is in
disgrace, he is still colonel Of seven Russian
regiments and honorary colonel of three
others. His brothr, Nicholas Nichoaie-
witch l., is in his 5Sth year, and is phys
ically one of the finest men in Russia. He
was comm lnder-in-chief of the Danube
army during the Russo-Turkish war, and
he is now inspector general of engineers,
field marshal inspector general of cavalry,
and colonel of niue regiments. The czar's
youngest uncle is Michael Nicholaievitch.
- -
stantine, as president of the council of state,
and he is also fell marshal, general-in-cnief
of artillery, aide-de-camp general to the
car, colonel of thirteen regiments honor
ary colonel or proprietor of two moe and
otherwise very distinguished and infiuen-
tial. In the war of 1877-78 he commanded
in Asia Minor, and both before and after it
he was governor of the Caucasus He is
reputed to be Immensely rich, and his es-
tates in the Caucasus are as large as many
a principalitv.
After the uncles come the cars four
brothers Alexandrovitch. Vladimir, the
eldest, may be called the most influential
subje in Russia. He is aide-de-camp-
general, military governor of st. Peters
burg, commader of the imperial guard
confidant of the car president Of the Rus
sian imperial academy of sciences and arts
and colonel of eight regiments. He is in
his AID year, and in the Grand Dachess
Marie Paulovna, a Mecklenburg princess,
he has charming wife, who is, however,
in bad odor in st. Petersburg society owing
to her notorious Bismarckan sympathies.
She has four children-the Grand
Duke Cyril, Boris and Andrew, and
tho Grand Duchess Helena. The eldest
boy is only 10, but both he and his
two brothers are colonies of a regiment.
The Grand Duchess Helena, who is but z,
has not yet had this honor conferred upon
her, but when she grows up she, too, like
her aunt Of Edinburg, will be a colonel.
The second brother OF the czar is the q and
Duke Alexis, a man of 80, admiral general
in chief of the Russian feet, aide-de-camp
general to the emperor, exceptionally hand
some, an excellent seaman. a high liver, q
deep drinker, colonel of seven regiments,
a d he morganatic spouse of the daughter
| of the Russian poet, Jonoffski. To Alexis
AIexandrovitch is chiefly due the rapid in
crease which has of late been made in the
strength of the Russian Black sea feet.
Sergius, who Is now 81. AS
a bachelor he had the reputation Of being
the best DIRE, sed and most fashionable man
in Russia, but in 1884 he married the Prin-
cess Elizabeth of Hssse, princess of Great
Britain and Irel nd, and it Is said that he
has since very much char ged his habits and
customs He is popular in his own coun-
ITY. Cnleuy D6CduSb ID VI a So
ciety which enables Russian religious pill
grims to 20 from Moscow to Jaffa for 60,
but he is much dsliked by his German con-
nections. He is colonel of tive regiments
His youngest bro her, Paul, now aged 20,
is so much Of an invalid that little l., X own
of him. He usually spends the winter at
Athens, where he is great favorite with
his cousins. At home he holds no import
ant Office but he is chief Of two regiments.
OF the czar's cousins who are grand dukes
Nicholas Constantinovitch, who is the eld-
est, holds absolutely no official position.
His brother, Consta ntine, who is 81, Is
colonel Of a regiment, and husband of a
princess of -Altenburg. Another
brother, Demetrius, is also colonel OF
regiment. OF the two sons of Nicholas
Nicholaievitch |. the elder, Nicholas, is
colonel Of three regiments, and the you ger,
Peter, colonel Of ohe regiment; while II the
six sons of the Grand Duke Michael, Nicho-
las commands two, Michael two and George
two, and the remainder command one reg
ment apiece. Excluding the car, there are
twenty -four grand dukes, who divide
among them the colonelcies, honorary or
otherwise, of no fewer than seventy-four
regiments. 1t is not astonishing that one
of the princes, Michael Nicholaievitch, is
obliged to keep over 100 uniforms in his
wardrobe.
Mothers give Angostura Bitters TO their
children to stop collie and looseness of the
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