Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1894-01-18
CZAROWITZ 70 MARRY.
Eligible Princesses in Flutter Of
Expectancy.
Nicholas Not a Son After the Czar's own
Ueart-His Liberal Views and Liter
ary Tastes Not Suited to tho
Lion Hearted Komanoff.


Another royal neart is being hawked /
in the courts of Europe. This tirie the |
owner of the heart is the czarowitz,
eldest son of the czar, the coming au-
tocrat of all the Russians, the power
full ruler that is to be of hundreds of
millions of people. This young man is
looking for wife, a woman who will
some day sit on the Russian throne,
the most powerful of her sex in the
world. Concerning this fortunate
woman that dreadful little rogue,
rumor, has much to say. But this
much lacks confirmation. Yesterday
it was the daughter of the prince
of Wales, tomorrow it is a Dan
ish princess, and next week we
shall have another story and an
other name. Indeed, the heir of
the throne of Russia is the most en-
gagged, but by no means the most
engaging, young man in Europe.
There is no eligible young woman con-
nected with any of the ruling European
houses whose name has not been con-
nected with his in matrimonial way.
1t may be that the young grand duke
knows little of this, for his tutors and
his fathers press censors do not allow
him to see any of the gossip that there
is flying about him and other royal
personages.
Who is this Grand Duke Nicholas,
fated some day to be the most power
full man in the world?
He may become car of Russia, at
any time, should the anarchists or nihil-
lists succeed in their designs of killing
the present head of the Romanoffs.
Little is known about him. He has
/ not figured to any extent in the news
paper press of Europe He may or he
may not have had escapades as other
royal sprigs have had, but one never
hears anything about them. He is
kept in seclusion. He is not allowed
the freedom that ordinary princes of
Europe are allowed. Powerful as his
father is, his heir is in some respects a
prisoner. He is being brought up in a
queer way. The greatest enjoyment
he seems to get out of life is in riding
a bicycle, and in running over to Lon
don when he gets a chance, where he
has a good romp without interference
His brothers, the grand dukes Michael
and George, are far from being kept in
seclusion. George, indeed, has seen
service in the Russian navy. AS the
immediate heir to the throne and III
view of the uncertainty as to the life
tenure of the czar, it has been the
policy of Alexander III. to keep the
czarowitz from any dangerous, or even
public post of duty. This accounts,
in the main, for the fact that so little
is known of the young man who is now,
by the way, few months over twenty
five years of age.
Truth be told there is very little
about the young man to'attract atten-
ton, aside from his position as the
eldest son of the czar. The grand
duke, in fact, is very colorless youth,
indeed. He lacks strength mentally
and physically. lie has shown no tai
ent for anything of consequence.
There is nothing of the Tartar about
him. He is not at all a Romanoff in
appearance. These men have nearly all
of them been of the most impressive
appearance. The mad Emperor Paul
was fine looking man. Alexander H.
was one of the handsomest men, in
point of physique and face, in Europe,
The present czar is veritable Ajax,
and is held to be the strongest man in
Europe. Grand Duke Nicholas is a