The morning news., 1894-11-11
The NEW CAR, NICHOLAS.
His Training and Education for the
Responsibility Thrust Upon Him.

His Characteristic Visit to England.
AsaYoung Army ofacsr.
From the Springfield Ciass) Republican.
The eyes of the world are now turned
,,,on the new car, the Grand Duke Mich
oIas. who will be crowned as Nicholas II.
This young man of 25 has been suddenly
Invested with the character of an impor-
tant factor in the maintenance of the Ed
rspean equilibrium. Slight, elegant,
graceful, Of slender build and medium
hight he has not inherited the stalwart
frame or the extraordinary physical
strength of his father and grandfather
His principal characteristics are those of
his mother and his mothers family; in
fact. he so closely resembles the Duke Of
York that during his visit to Queen Vic
toria during the past summer, had he net
worn the striking Russian uniform in all
n,hlic functions, he would often have been
mistaken for his cousin. But it is an
ugIv likeness. Nicholas II. has the square
Tartar head and the curious Tartar snub
nose which so emphatically pronounce
him a Russian.
The czarewitz's education has been eX-
+renely rigorous says a writer whose at
tirude teward the Romanoffs is not one
If hostiIity. He had been placed by the
car under the absolute control Of the
former tutor of Alexander Ill, the pro-
cureur general of the holy synod, NJ
Pobiedenostteff, who welded his power
with no gentle or lenent hand so far as
application to lessons and subservience to
discipline were concerned. Fortunately
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or else he would have had but melan-
cbOlv. experience of youth and childhood.
He had reached his goth year before any
of the rules were relaxed and at that
age his private apartment stlll presented
the appearance of an ordinary school.
The large room was filled with books on
all subjects and in every language; 1t was
scantily furnished, the most conspicuous
ornament being a huge blackboard habit
ually covered with algebraic problems or
geometrcal figures, The whole morning
was spent in mastering exact sciences,
while the afternoons were devoted to the
mere congenial study of philosophy, his
tory and social economy.
In 1880 the grand duke tosk his first Off
cial Journey. In his capacity as heir to
the thrSne, he visited his grandfather at
Copenhagea, and afterward went to Ber-
lin and Stuttgart, where he was received
with the honors and etiquette commanded
by his rank. In the autumn of 1890 he
started for long journey, which extended
over a period of seven months. From Vi
emma he dropped south into Greece,
thence to Egypt and on to India, where he
was the guest of the British viceroy, and
returned home by way of Afghanistan,
hunting the lion and the tiger in the far
east. His younger brother, George, who
was to be his companion the whole time,
had to part from him and return to Rus
sia, owing to i'll health, and his permanent
delicacy Of constitution from that time
became a serious cause ef anxiety to both
his parents.
On this young prince, so carefully
trained and educated, a heavy RESPONSE
biliy is now about to fall. He knows that
he has to encounter the ever-brooding, if
unaclnowledged, fear that the peace of
Europe may suddenly and unexpectedly
be disturbed, and the openly proclaimed
and irreconcilable hatred of the nihilists.
The Franco-R Russian alliance, so pomp-
ously and SO vociferously eXtolled after
Cronstadt, is not, perhaps, as solidly
established as it pleases some to believe.
The Grand Duke Nicholas was vividly
and favorably impressed by all he saw
IN England; he makes no mystery of his
sympathy with British institutions, man.
ners customs and men; and If the rift
between Great Britain and France
deepens and widens into an open breach.
who can say whether the czarowitz will
4C4ItllADtI Win hEcueI hpplECldllOl4 Alb
tumultuous determination of Cronstadt
and Toulon, or the welcome he received
at navel and military reviews on English
soil?
There is a certain party in Russia which
likes to represent the czarOwitz as a sim
pleon writes Edward King He speaks
seven languages admirably and thinks in
none said a wicked critic one day. This
is unllind. Those who met the coming
car during his recent visits to France
ind England were astonished at the
depth as well as the brightness of his OBJ
servations. When he went to Berlin, to
represent his father at the funeral of
Emperor Wilhelm J., Bismarck discov-
cred that he had at last met a Russian
grand duke whom he could not talk
round The czarowitz was passionately
Lond OF the military profession. Peter the
Great and Nicholas l are his favorite
soYereigns. His regiment of hussars is
SAD to be the best in the Russian army
Hels skilled swordsmsn, with a strength
OF wrist remarkable in one of such deli
cate frame. He handles a pistol so clev-
efiy that when he rnskins his tour through
me Caucasus he astonished even the
troesmen by his fine aim.
The new czar is very fond of all arts.
NO wonder he fell in love with dam
seuse who represents one Of the loveliest
ol The plastic arts. In painting he pre-
lers Rembrandt, Horace Vernet and Wou-
'tEmans, Meissonier, Detalle, MakOws-
KY and Bruloff. I'm scripture, he said,
curing his recent visit to Paris. "there
nave been two awakenings since Michael
angelo those of Rude and Rosin." In
music he is rchi-Russian. He thinks
lightly Of Wagner. Nicholas believes
mat he can become a good practical SOL
Iler Turenne is his model in msdern,
aesar IN ancient history. Napoleon" "
.e ~ says would have been as great as
IWenne had he known how TO spare his
Gen. The best discourse for troops
dOoht 10 go in battle he remarked one
uay' is that of military band" He
males proclamations, verbage, heroics.
Armies" he thinks. "are obedient to
moral force and faith alone" Sometimes
ne says biting things. Kaiser Wilhelm
mas @ not yet forgiven him that smart mot:
Inc Germans have had three emperors-
,,he white kaiser, the bright kaiser and the
,Eht kaiser; Of the three Ike the second
OesL The play on the adjectives wis
sShde' weissende, reisende greatly amused
lue court Russians who all know Ger
man and hate Germany. The motto Of
nicholas is: The tiger invades; the lion
9eiends himself" II this Is to indicate