The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-22

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ael by his highness the Archbishop or.
Novgorod, with the cross and holy Wa
ter. After having
vENERATED THE HOLY RELICS
and the holy images and prayed be
fore the tombs of their ancestors, their
/ imperial majesties went toward the ca
| thedral Of the Annunciation preceded
and followed in the same manner.
/ Upon leaving the Cathedral of the
| Archangel Michael their majesties
! found assembled at the door all the
ladies of the court, who had accom-
panied the car and czarina from the
| Cathedral of the Assumption. They
| followed their maieSties to the door of
| the Cathedral of the Annunciation,
| without entering it, although they sub
sequently followed the imperial party
to the palace of the Kremlin. At the
| gate of the Cathedral of the Annun-
citation, where a tie deum and prayers
had been previously celebrated and en-
/ toned, their majestieS proceeded and
followed in high state in the manner
| already described. approached the
holy images and relics in the same
manner as before, and eventually left
the sacred edifice for the palace, trav-
ersing the principal halls in state and
being received everywhere with the
highest ecclesiastical,
MILITARY AND CIVIL HONORS.
At the moment their majesties en-
tered the Palace of the Kremlin, an
artillery salute of 101 guns was fired,
| and throughout the journey the bells
from all the belfries of Moscow were
tolled. The car and czarina will re-
| main at the palace in partial seclusion
until May %, when there will be
grand review of the troops, and the
- ~ fior1 @f hd i'm
perial standard. which always occurs
three days before the coronation. On
May % and 2S the car and czarina
will receive the congratulations of the
foreign ambassadors and other high
dignitaries in the throne room Of the
Kremlin palace. The scene along the
Tverkaja today, the route which the
car followed from the palace to the
Kremlin, through the city to the court
boundaries, where it becomes the
highway, to st. Petersburg, were
VARIED AND PICTURESQUE.
On this highway stands the Petrovski
palace, where the cars always reside
previous to making their formal entry
into Moscow.
Consequently this thoroughfare is one
of the most attractive in Moscow and
competition for windows along it has
| been unprecedented, prices ranging
from 500 to $780, but fabulous prices
were paid for the best locations. All
along the route special stands were
erected for privileged people, some of
! the structures being gorgeous pavilions
more like permanent houses than any
! thing else.
Tverkaja street from one end to the
| other, is lighted by electricity tonight,
and the city is brilliantly Illuminated.
Probably the
MOST STRIKING STRUCTURES
erected for the occasion are large
wooden obelisks, some of them 100 feet
high, which tonight are covered with
brilliant lamps. During the day they
were handsomely draped with various
colors. The largest and most original
of these obelisks is opposite the pro-
vision market and before the town hall
stand four others, each seventy feet
high. The Illumination of the build
ings this evening are positively
dazzling They are outlined with fairy
lamps, their domes and roofs are COW
cred with lamps of all colors and the
night effect is beautiful in the extreme.
| Electricity has been used as rule, but
candles in paper frames or glass bowls,
oil lamps and gas lamps have also been
| largely employed. The whole city
/ seems to be a mass of light and it looks
as if the population will remain in the
streets until daylight.
All the side streets and boulevards
are flooded with light and the grand
stands are filed with the people watch
ing
THE PASSING THRONES.
Venetian masks and beautiful arches
| bearing handsome designs in brilliant
hues are to be seen on all sides con-
nected to each other with ropes of
fairy lamps and Chinese lanterns. One
of the most admired buildings is that
| of the governor of Moscow.
1t would be impossible TO overdraw
| the splendid picture presented by the
procession of this afternoon and by the
Examinations of tonight. No money has
| been spared to make the coronation
festivities memorable in Russian his
tory, and up to the present all efforts
| have been crowned with success. The
Russian government is said to have
spent
OVER TWENTY MILLION DOL
LARS
on the fetes up to the present and the
city of Moscow is understood to have
expended nearly as much money and
more expenses have to be met
The illuminations will last three even
ings in succession and will cost sew
eral million dollars to the government
alone, without counting what the city
will contribute toward this portion of
the expenses. Besides the expenses of
the Russian government and the city
of Moscow, that which the
grand dukes, foreign princes and
ambassadors have been put to
is really enormous, one author
fty going so far as to estimate that
there would be about 500, 900, 900 worth
of jewelry alone in the procession of
today.
The French government especially.
has been put to very great expense
for the coronation fetes. The cost of
the supper which their imperial males
ties will attend, under the auspices of
the French delegation, will cost over
100000 and the carriages used by the
French ENJOYS were the property of the
Emperor Napoleon, built especially for
the christening of the late Prince I'm
perial. Ex-Empress Eugene allowed
them to be sent to Moscow for the use
Of Comte de MonteselIe and General
de Boisdeffre, the representative of
France.