Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-11-08

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Alexander III.
He, though the head of the church
persons, took his last rites few days
before death claimed him from all his
greatness.
At 2:15 o'clock this afternoon the
summons came and few hours later
the thunderous booming of cannon at
Livadia and st. Petersburg announced
that the car was dead and that he
who had been the Grand Duke Nicholas
reigned in his stead.
On lightning wings the news of Rus
sia's loss spread throughout the world,
and it is safe to say that everywhere
the intelligence created sympathy for
the family of him who, by his policy,
had maintained the peace of Europe.
From America came words of sym
pathy, for the dead ruler had always
the west, and Americans have not for
gotten how we'll his fathers friendship
sustained the north in the war of the
rebellion.
Among the peasants of Russia he
will be mourned with deep and abid-
ing sorrow, for was he not the peas
ant czar?" None of the grandiloquent
titles borne by him were thought as
much of as the one bestowed upon him
by his 1owly subjects, whose virtues
were magnifed in him, and whose vices
in him were entirely lacking.
He who denies the popularity of the
car among the 1owly classes of Rus
STA is blinded by prejudice. His kind
acts to mothers during plaques and
famine will never be forgotten. and to-
night in thousands upon thousands of
homes. from Vladivostok, in the Pa
cific, to the fortresses of the Caucasus,
millions of people, as they kneel be-
fore their Icons, will pray from the
bottom of their hearts for the repose of
the soul of their Little Father" who
was to them as great in soul as he was
in stature.
Shortly after o'clock the members
of the palace guard were marshaled in
the square in front of the palace
chapel, for the ceremony of swearing
allegiance to the new car. They took
the oath. The grand dukes were the
next to swear allegiance, and they
were followed in the order of pre-
cedence by the high court function
aries, court officials, military officers
and civil officials.
Incidents in the Life of Alexander H.
The House of Romacof.
Alexander Alexandrovitch, car and auto
crat of all the Russias, was of the imperial
This dynasty is web woven of the greatest
lines of ancestry in northern Europe and the
east, and it's origin is lost in the labyrinth of
antiquity. Russian history properly begins
with Rurik of Sweden, who settled at Novgo-
rod in s62, and conquered Russia. and the Ro-
manoffS claim him ancestor. But they
are also descended from the Emperor ConStan-
tine, Monomachus, and the Paleologi, from
Kingis Khan, from the earliest princes of Nov
gorod, and from the last OF the AnglO-SaxOn
kings.
In the thirteenth century this house were
chiefs and hereditary high priests at the affairs
dedicated to the sun in Lithuania. The re-
ligiouS zeal of the Teutonic races drove them
to Moscow, where they embraced Christianity
and were enrolled among the mobiles for their
services in the wars with the Mongols. who OPP
pressed Russia for 800 years. For centuries
they shared the vicissitudes of the empire, and
at times were almost exterminated by persecu-
ton, torture and exile. On the other hand
they were honored by numerous alliances with
the imperial family Their leaders frequently
married the daughters OF the emperorS, and
finally, in 1884. Anastasia Romanova. the
flower of the flock, became the wife of Ivan ~.
the first OF the line to adopt the title OF czar or
caesar.
usurped by Bori Godonofr, who lived and
reigned until 15O5 and who to maintain him
self in power, followed the RomanohS with re-
But at his death, when the empire was diSOr-
ganized and in ruins, his son was pushed aside
ana Ihe ooyaoS This Was Miehaei Ro o.
manor. youth of IL, whose mother was
daughter of Ivan ". and Anastasia and Ro-
manova, who was in exile and obscurity, and
whose father. though datriarch of Moscow,
was lingering in a Polish dungeon into which
Godonoff had thrust him. This was the origin
of the Romanof emperorS.
ALExANDER's PREDECESSORS.
From this period the RomanofTs have been as
much German as Russian. Michael Romanof
lineal descendants. in order were Alexis. died
1876; Feodore. died 1852: Peter l.. called the
Great. died 1852; Peter H., another son of
Alexis. died 1870, at the age of ii. and Peter
Ill, who was the grandson of Peter the Great
his mother being Anna Teodorovich, the daugh-
ter of Peter the Great, and the duke Of Hol-
stein. Peter Ill married Sophia Augusta,
princess of Anhalt-Serbst, in Upper Saxony
who took the name of Catherine, and who. hav-
to 106
Catherine was succeeded by Paul Petrovich,
her son. but of doubtful paternity. who mar
ried Dorothea Sophia, princess of Wurtem-
berg. and was aSSaSSinated in 1901. On his
death he was succeeded by his son. Alexander
Paulovich. or Alexander L. who married Louise
Charlotte. daughter Of the Emperor Frederick
William III. Of Prussia. and died in 1925 1t
was during this reign Napoleon invaded Rus
SID ou us utdtu ne Was SucCoeOeU according
to a family compact. by his youngest brother.
Nicholas. skipping his next younger brother,
Constantine. on account of imbecility. Nicho-
las. whose reign was distinguished by the Cri-
mean war. was succeeded in 1855 by his son.
Alexander IL, who was the father Of Alexan-
der I'LL. and who was aSsasSinated in 1881. The
brothers and sisters of Alexander H., are Mich
oias. who died in 1865, Vladimir. Alexis and
Maria, who married the duke Of Edinburgh.
Alexander was the second son. He was born
March 10, ls45. The death Of his brother.
Nicholas, left him czarowitz. heir apparent to
the throne of the Russian empire. In 1855 he
married the Danish Princess Dagmaret, sister
of the princess Of Wales. The first child,
Nicholas AIexandrovitch, who will be car OF
all the Russias. was born May II, 1888
When the nfhilists killed Alexander H.. In
1881 SO severely was the Russian monarchy
shaken that nc attempt was made to celebrate
the coronation OF the new emperor until two
Years later. But in 1888 Alexander III. was