The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-12-27
SCANDALS IN HIGH PLACES.
The Gar VIII Send His Brother Into
Exile.

The Gar VIII Send His Brother Into
Exile.
BERLIN, Dec. pa report of a startling
nature is in circulation, and obtains credence
in diplomatic circles. 1t is to the effect that
Count Won Schouvaloff, the Russian Ambas-
sador to Germany, is to be transferred to
Moscow as successor to the Grand Duke
Sergius, brother of the Gar, and Governor
General.
LONDON Dec. 26.-Contradictory stories are
received here regarding the Grand Duke
Sergius, brother of the Gar, who last spring
was appointed Governor of Moscow. At the
beginning of the present month it was said
that the Grand Duke was making himself
very unpopular by his efforts to suppress
fraudulent practices growing out of the cor
ruptfon for which the Russian official world
is notorious
One scandal in which the Grand Duke is
said to have interviewed was the misappropria-
tion of S12,500 which had been sent to the
Orla Branch of the Red Cross Society for
Telel purposes among the sufferers in the
famine-stricken provinces. The Czarina is
the chief patroness of this branch of the Red
Cross Society. The Grand Duke recently
gave from his privy purse 1000 roubles for
the sufferers, but the fact that he has inter-
fered with the stealing of the famine money
has caused him to be very unpopular with a
certain wealthy and influential clan who are
office. He is charged by this class with
taking advantage of the authority con-
ferred upon him by the Car, and
with playing the part of a tyrant. They
say that his peremptory behavior is an insult
to them, and so determined are they to have
his power abridged that they have prepared
and forwarded to the Gar petition PRAYING
for his removal frcm the office of Governor of
Moscow. The advices received to-day state
that the Gar suspects his brother OF nursing
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these designs in country where all social
and political honors emenate from the Gear
is not stated. 1t is added that the Car has
been so impressed by the array of evidence
presented to him against the Grand Duke
that 1t his intention to send him into exile
An illustration of the ''tyranny'' of the
Grand Duke is given. 1t appears that he
gave orders recently that the horse races at
Moscow were not to commence until he ar
rived. large crowd was present at the races
and they were kept waiting for an hour and
half before the Grand Duke appeared The
crowd grew very impatient at the delay and
when the Grand Duke appeared he was vigor-
ously hissed.
This incident was reported to the Car, and
it is said 1t is bekely to decide the question of
the Grand Dukes dismissal from office.
The wife of the Grand Duke Sergius is a
daughter of the Grand Duke Louis, of Hesse
and granddaughter of Queen Victoria She
recently abandoned the religious faith in
WHICH SIG WAS Iralueu, anu In ADrll last she
formally joined the Greek Church. The
Grand Duke is recognized as the head of the
old Russian orthodox party, and all recent
advices regarding him, with the exception of
to-day's, showed that he stood in high favor
with the Gar. The very fact that ne was ap-
pointed to the important office of Governor
of Moscow shows that he must have
enjoyed the confidence of the Gear to a
high degree. 1t was charged in some quarters
that the conversation of the Grand Duchess
Sergius was not the result of free change
in her religious belief but that it was due to
moral suasion of a very brutal kind This
statement was semi-officially denied at the
time, but the fact remains that she at one time
was SO disgusted with her husband
that she was with difficulty restrained
from leaving him. 1t is said that the
Gear interposed his good offices to prevent the
scandal that would have followed a separa-
tion