The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-11-11
CzARINA,s LIRE IN DANGER.

A~SAAtOli, WV o. L nc news lleNt SSAliSS
this evening from st, Petersburg
through channels that entitle it to full
belief gives sad and startling turn to
the recent pleasant gossip about the
coming birth of an heir to the imperial
Crown of Russia.
The physicians of the place, who have
been in consultation with gynaecologi-
cal specialists, advised the Gear that
in the natural course of events Meth
er the mother nor the child could sur
vive.
The frightfully grave operation of
Caesarian section was therefore per-
formed.
Tonight the men of science are no
longer able TO conceal from the imperial
husband the imminent danger of the
Czarina.
1t is understood in official circles that
her recovery is considered impossible
that there is no hope whatever.
A letter from st. Petersburg dated
october 10, announced that the Czarina
was in seclusion at Tarskoe Selo, and
would remain there until the birth OF
her child.
The Czarina-Alexandria Feodorovna
at her betrothal to Nicholas of Russia
October 21-November 2. 1S94-was born
at Darmstadt, Princess Alix Victoria
Helen Louise Beatrice of Hesse-bei-
Rhein, June 6, 1872.
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Ernest Louis Karl Albert Wilhelm
born at Darmstadt in 1868, is her
brother.
Their parents were Louis Nv. and AL
ice Princess of Great Britain and Ire
land. Both are dead.
Princess Alice was the most beloved
of the daughters of Queen Victoria
Princess Alix had her firmness of char
acter. She met Nicholas at the wed
ding of her sister Elizabeth to the
Grand Duke Serge in 1884. Princess
Alix was twelve years old and Nicholas
sixteen. The children fell in love, but
the Gar and the anti-German faction
at the court were opposed to the alli-
ance which threatened the fntruding
of German influence into Russian dip
lomacy, and the Czarowitch's affection
was diverted for some years.
Princess Alix made visit to the Rus
sian court with her father when she
was eighteen years old. The Czarowitch
renewed his wooing, but Princess Alix
was then zealously attentive to her du-
ties as a Lutheran, and the national
eXaction that she should become a men,
Der of the orthodox church at her be-
trothal to the Czarowitch alarmed her.
She would not listen to the Czarowitch.
He saw the world with the eyes of his
father. He had the latter's contempt
for other nations. But when he went
to Coburg he said to his parents so the
court chronicler says, II am determined
at last to have an answer from her own
mouth" Princess Alix learned of this
resolution from her brother-in-law "Do
you not love fim?' he asked. She said,
Yes
The death of the car fastened the
marriage which skeptics said could
never occur because the court was OPP
posed to it because Princess Alix would
not abjure her faith, and because a
promise to a German princess. Then,
Princess Alix was in delicate health.
She often went into seclusion under the
care of physicians who were experts
in nervous troubles, and there were ru-
mors that the dread of Nihilists affected
her intensely.
At Livadia, where the widow Of Alex
ander found her sympathetic and kind,
she was regarded as highly deserving
of the name of Sunshine" that had
been given to her as prettily descrip-
tive epithet when she was a child. Her
governess, whom Queen Victoria sent
to Darmstadt thirty years ago to teach
English to all the children of Princess
Alice, Miss Orchard, was always at
tached to Princess A1ix, and promised
never to be separated from her Prin-
cess Alix was amiable, sensitive, impul-
sive. graceful, and made only friends.
Princess Alix, renamed Alexandra
Feodorovna, in accordance with the
Russian law, was married to the Car
Nicholas II. November 26, 1894 The
day was cloudy and cherries. Troops
barred all the avenues to the Winter
Palace at an early hour; the King of
Denmark, the King of the Hellenes, the
Prince of Wales, the Grand Dukes of
Russia, diplomats and high officials of
all nations were at the sumptuous cere-
mony; the Archpriest Janyscheff, chap
lain to Alexander, gave the benediction,
and said:
"The Father, the Son, and the Holy
Ghost, the all-holy and eonsubstantial
and life-originating Trinity, one God
head and sovereignty, bless you and
vouchsafe unto you long life, well-fa-
vored children, progress in life and
faith, and replenish you with all the
good things on earth, and count you
worthy Of the obtaining of promised
blessings, through the prayers of the
holy God-bearing one, and of all the
saints Amen"
Gossip has made little of Princess
Alix's life since her marriage. In po-
litical circles it was rumored for a time
that the czar was under German in
fluence, the kaiser having always had
authority over Princess Alix; later, it
was rumored hiatt the czar was under
the influence of England, through
friendship for the Duke of York, whom
he resembles, and that this influence
was not agreeable to Princess A1ix; but
the most plausible of all the rumors