The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-17
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many colors-blue, red. green, dashing
lancers with pennons flying from the
glittering tips of their slaves; heavy
dragons, guardsmen cased with corse-
let's of shining steel; and then the his
toric Cossacks, wild and warlike of as
pect, bestriding their steeds like CEN
taurS; the AStrakhan-capped CircaS-
sians their vari-colored head dresses
seeming to form long lines of white
and black nodding plumes and wearing
their cartridge belts like ornaments
while to complete the picturesquesnes
of the motley show follow the KirgElis
cavalry, recruited from the tribes of
Central Asia. There is a reason apart
from the desire of the authorities to
make great display, for the gathering
of these organized Kirghis tribesmen
at Moscow. Their appearance there
forms an object lesson, which all who
run may read, in the vastness of the
empire whose constant extension to-
ward the Orient has made them sub
jeots and soldiers of the car. Such
an army, all Russians, proudly feel
could belong only to such a country.
THE CORONATION.
The coronation ceremony will take
place in the Cathedral of the Assump-
ton, within the walls of the centuried
citadel, or fortress, known as the
Kremlin. There are four cathedrals
none of them large, and all standing
near each other. That Of the Assump-
ton, or the Uspensky Sober, holds but
a few hundred people. and when we
remember the many attendants, be-
sides the clergy and numerous mobiles
from all the length and breadth of the
land, the foreign diplomats and royal
guests, the accommodations will seem
meagre enough. In fact, the consum-
nation of. the coronation can only be
announced to the great mass of the
people by the booming of the guns that
will be fired from the Kremlin at the
proper moment
The emperor and empress will reach
the cathedral from the Kremlin palace,
to which they have previously repaired
on the occasion of their entry into Mos
COW. This palace is close beside the
church, and the imperial procession will
start from the Red Stairway Bells
viii be rung and salutes of artillery
fired as the party proceeds, the car
and czarina walking under a splendid
canopy upheld by twelve generals,
specially selected as bearers by the
ear himself, and between a double
line of military officers. Inside the
cathedral, with us I'VE UOulSS, Is placed
the dais upon which the car will as
sumo his crown. At the door the inn
perial procession is met by the priests
of the Greek church, but before
it arrives the favored spectators
who are to witness the ceremony
take their seats, and the crown
and coronation robes are brought
in and deposited upon tables The
ringing of the bell-the famous Ivan
Veliky-soon announces the arrival of
the car, who goes at once to the Gais
with his consort. While he stands
fronting the altar he recites to the
metropolitan Tor bishop of Moscow the
creed of the Greek church, and the
long roll Of imperial titles which are
borne by the autocrat of all the Rus
sias are next repeated by the metro
politan in regular order. The coro-
nation robe of cloth of gold trimmed
with ermine is then given to the car,
who puts it on, and just afterwards,
reverently bending his head, he listens