Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-09-30
ROYAL BARRIERS.
TOnsOrial Artists OF the Russian and Ger.
man MOnarchs.

xonBOflAI Artists OF the Russian and Ger
man MOnarchs.
despot should wear full beard or
shave himself. No nihilist will ever
get chance at the czar of Russia with
a razor, at least In the guise of a bar
ber The autocrat has his whiskers
trimmed, but with scissors. Even this
is treated as responsible and import
ant function, and of the four grand
masters of the court as they are
called, one always attends the car
when his majesty is under the BARRIERS
care. Not that any doubt is felt as to
the fidelity Of the tonsorial artist. The
family of Guelabovsli have been bar
bers to the imperial house of Romanoff
from the time of the Gear Paul. The
first of the name, Michael, was employ
ed when youth in the palace at St
Petersburg, and one of his occasional
duties was to shave the emperor: The
mobiles who conspired the death of Paul
offered the young barber reward that
must have seemed dazzling to him if
he would cut the emperor's throat.
Michael pretended to agree, but took
the first opportunity to inform the i'm
perial chamberlain, Count Troubetskoi
The latter, in vain, warned the weak
minded car of the conspiracy against
his life; and Paul, history tells, was
murdered in his bed-chamber by the
mobiles who had plotted to destroy him.
When Alexander l. came to the throne
he was reminded by Count Troubetskio
OF the fidelity of young Michael, and in
recognition of his devotion to the i'm
marital IN 10 IL
decree, appointed Michael Guelabovsh
and his descendants to be BARRIERS to
the ear and his household. Alexander
was in the habit of being shaved, and
during his reign of quarter of a CEN
fury he never hesitated to entrust the
task to Michael, whose grandson now
holds the place by right of descent. AS
before stated, the off re is good deal
of sinecure with the present car, so
far as shaving is concerned
1t is the duty of the imperial barber
to attend his august master every
morning, Immediately after the car
has risen and performed his additions,
for the purpose of dressing his hair and
beard. This is done in the presence of
one of the grand masters of the court.
abovski at the present day is a sphinx
He has never been known to reveal the
secrets of the Romanoff toilet, or wheth-
er he talks to his majesty, or is OCCASION
ally honored with a remark from the
lips whose utterances are to Russia like
the laws of the Modes and Persians. 1t
is safe to presume, however, that Mich
ael cultivates the virtue of silence in the
imperial presence as well as out of it.
and that he never asks the car wheth-
er he wants a shampoo, or would like
little cosmetic on his mustache.
Michael goes wherever the car trav-
els, and it is through the occasional Wis
its of the Russian autocrat to his ia
ther-in-law at Copenhagen that the bar
ber's personality is known to the world
there being much less ceremony and Sc
crecy in the Danish palace that at St.
Petersburg.
The two former kaisers of the Ger
man empire both wore full boards In
Prussia the barber has never been an
official parsonage, the selection being
entrusted to the marshal of the house,
at present the Baron Won Lyncker. The
aged Kaiser William had a constant
and faithful personal attendant in Lud-
| wig hanitz, the son of a Brandenburg
| peasant, who from performing ordinary
mental duties In the palace grew to be
the confidential servant of the king and
emperor. Kanitz was inseparable from
his master in war and peace, and he
could undoubtedly have given memoirs
| to the world as interesting in some re-
i .<,&D
longation of the kaislSr's life to great
age was no doubt due largely to the
faithful ministrations of this humble
parsonage, who never shared IN the
houors or fame that crowned others