The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-14
CARS AND THEIR REIGNS.
RUSSIA FURNISHES THE BLOODIEsT
PICTURE IN THE BOOK OF TIME.

RUSSIA FURNISHES THE BLOODIEST
PICTURE IN THE BOOK OF TINE.
The Founder of the Empire-FrOm
the Time of RuriIS to the Present
Day the Lives of the Cars of the
Russian Monarchy Have Been
Crowded With TerrOr-But Few
Die Natural Death-Russia's
Bloody History.
From the Philadelphia Times.
Nicholas the Second, the son of Alexan-
der Alexandrovitch. is safely crowned.
| Long live the car! No other monarch i'm
| the world has SO absolute a rule over so
vast and populous an empire. No other
has a more imposing array Of titles. For
on Tuesday. May 26. after his majesty had
repeated the Lords Prayer and the Apos-
| ties Creed the Bishop of Kazlin pro-
claimed to the assembled multitude of
princes, Dotentates and powers:
IF there be any of you here present,
| knowing of any impeachment for which
| Nicholas, son of Alexander, should not be
crowned by the grace of God, Emperor
and Autocrat of all the Russias, of Moscow
| of Kieff, of Vladimir, of Novgorod; Gar
/ of KAHN, of Astrakhan, of Poland, of 81
| IBERIA, of Kherson-Taurida, of Grousi
| Gousadar of Pskoff; Grand Duke of Smo-
4 lensk, of Lithuan,a, of Vilhynla, of Podo-
/ liza, and of Finland; Prince of Esthonia.
of Livonia, of Courland, of Semigala, of
the Samoyedes, of Biclostok, of Corelia,
of Foer, of Ingor, Of Perm, of Viatka, of
! Bulgaria and of other countries; Master
and Grand Duke of the Lower Countries
in Novgorod, of Tchernigoff of Riazan, of
| Polostk, of Rostoff of Jarosaff, of Bic
losersk, of OndOrk, of Obdorsk, of Kond-
isk, of Vitelsk. of Metilaff, and of all the
countries of the north; Master Absolute
of Iversk, Of Kastalnisk, of Kabardinsk;
| and of the territory of Armenia; Sovereign
/ of the Mountain Princes of Tcherkask;
/ Master of Turkestan; Heir PresumptiVe
! of Norway, and Duke of Schleswick- Hol-
/ stein, of Stomarne, of Dithmarse and Of
/ Oldenburg let him come forward now, in
/ the name of the Holy Trinity, and show
! what the impeachment is, or let him remain
! dumb forever" This was repeated three
| times. No objection was made, and the
/ bishop thereupOn laid his hand upon the
/ head of the car who at once knelt down
/ The metropolitan of Moscow then took an
/ ermine mantle from the table and threw
! it over the car, saying:
! cover and protect thy people as this
/ robe covers and protects thee"
| The emperor replied: Il will, ] will I
will, God helping" and kissed the pre-
| late's hand.
Then the Bishop of Novgorod placed the
sceptre in the ears hand and said: MAY
] the hand which holds this Wither on the
/ day when thou are unjust
And the car answered: "Be it So"
| Amid such magnificent solemnities, and
amid all the proud trappings of the Mus
| SoVite court there was and is, however,
/ an eVer-preSent skeleton which, like that
/ at the old Egyptian feasts, reminds the
/ monarch of the uncertainty of place and
] life and recalls gruesOme memories of his
| line. For there is no dynasty on earth
/ whose history has been more tragic than
hon o laH &C - -f1wn
! time of Rurik to the present day their
/ lives have been crowned with terror or
ended in violence. Those who have liv-
/ ed safely and who have died natural
deaths have been the exceptions TO the
rule.
| Rurik were long ago extinct, he is still
1 reckoned the founder of the Russian mon
/ archy His life and death were worthy of
/ the savage chieftain that he was. With
/ his son, Igor, began the tale of horror
! which has marked czardom ever since.
/ For this Igor set out to Cypress the peo-
! pie more than any ch1eftain who had
/ gone before him. After having exacted
! a heavy tribute from a tribe known as
Drevlians, he was marching back to his
! capital when the thought struck him tina :
/ he might have exacted still more from
! them. Not wishing his heutenants to
| share the spoils he bade them go on to
/ the capital with the bulk Of his army
| while he went back with a small force
| among the Drevlians, to plumber them
/ still more. But they, driven to despair,
| took up arms and killed him and every
one of his followers A still worse fate
! was that of Sviatoslaf, the son of Igor,
| who was waylaid and killed by the Pet
! chenegans, a hostile tribe. They cut his
! head off and made of his skull a goblet
| which was used by the chief of the tribe
| at banquets for many years afterward.
/ SViatOslaf left three sons, among whom
| the empire was divided. They went to
| war with each other and the eldest killed
| the second and was in turn himself killed
by the third, Vladimir. The last named
| prince died a natural death and left four
/ sons. The eldest of them had two Of his
| brothers murdered and then fed for fear
| of the vengeance of the fourth, and ulti-
! mately committed suicide.
! Toward the close ofsthe eleventh cen
| fury David, one of the descendants of
| Rurik, tore out the eyes Of one Of his
| brothers, whose lands he coveted. For
| the rest of his family. Another ofRurik' S
| descendants, Andrew, while endeavoring
| to unite the various provinces of Russia
| into q single harmonious empire, was as
| sasslnated by other jealous princes.
| During the thirteenth century, while
| Russia was ruled by the Tartars, a num-
| the rest of his family. Another of Rurik 5
| were tried before the great horde and put
| to death. The Grand Prince Alexander
| successfully defended himself on trial,
| The Grand Prince George Of Moscow,
| whose wife had died while a prisoner of
the Grand Prince Michael, accused the
| latter before the horde of having poison
| ed her. Michael appeared in person to
| defend himself, and was promptly muir
| dered by a hireling of George. Soon after
this George was murdered by son of
| Michael, and the latter was IN turn or
| dered put 10 death by the horde. Grand
Prince Alexander, another son of Michael,
| Vasili, Grand Prince OF Moscow. in 1431,
/ had the eyes of his cousin Nasili put out.