The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-07
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Imperial Ceremonies at
st. Petersburg.
Emperor and Grand Dukes Bore
the Coffin Of the Czarewitch-
A Royal Mourning.

NEW YORK, July 26.-The ST. Pet
ersburg correspondent of the Herald
describing the funeral of the Care
WITCH says:
The Dowager Empress, accompanied
| by the Grand Dukes and Grand Du-
| chesses and attended by Mile. Ozeroff,
| her maid of honor, Count Benkendeff
and Admiral Loman, arrived on 19tr
| inst. at NOvo-ROsieySk and embarked
on the irOnclad St. George. The vessel
| left for Batoum, followed by a convoy
| of the Black Sea fleet. On the arrival
of the vessels at Batoum the ST. George
alone entered the harbor, the other
vessels remaining outside.
The entire Black Sea fleet had as
| Sembled to pay the last hOnors to the
defunct hereditary Grand Duke. The
/ vessels We're drawn up in a double line
that extended all the way from Ba-
toum to NOvo-Rosieysk and the St.
George, with her august passengers
and the body of the Prince, passed
down the center. The ShrOud was of
cloth of gold, lined with bordered err
mine.
The military service around the cot
fin at the train and at sea was per-
formed by Generals Bibicoff and Nico-
laieff, the latter a colonel of the regi-
ment of the Chevalier Guards, and by
officers and on-commissioned officers
| of a delegation sent to AbbaS TOuman,
| by the regiments of which the heredi-
tary Grand Duke was chief, and by
sailors belonging to the Grand Duke
Constantine Nicolaievitch's Marine
Corps, who accompanied him to st. Pc
tersburg.
On the arrival of the Imperial train
at st. Petersburg at Z o'clock on Mon
day evening the Emperor and Grand
Dukes in person carried the coffin to a
catafalque of cloth of gold, drawn by
eight horses that awaited it. Four gen
erals laid over it shroud of cloth of
gold covered with ermine. The entire
court and administration took part in
the procession, which also included
detachments of marine guards and rep
resentatives of all institutions of
which the late Grand Duke was mem
Der.
IT front of the catafalque was car
ried, on a cushion of cloth of gold, the
numerous decorations of the deceased
Prince. Then came his flag officer
with his favOrite horse from the I'm
perial stables, clad with black cloth
trappings.
A large body of clergy, among them
the Grand Dukes Almoner, preceded
by the choir of the Imperial chapel,
bearing lighted tapers, walked imme-
diately in front of the catafalQue, the
cords of which were held by the high
est State functiOnaries.
Immediately behind the catafalque
came the Emperor, followed by Baron
F'redericksz, the court marshal and
General Hesse, the head of the Emper-
Or'S military household.
The Grand Duke Michael Alexandra
vich came next, walking alone. Then
came the Grand Dukes Vladimar Alex
| is Sergiuse, Paul Michael Nicolaievitch
and his sons, the Grand Dukes Alex
ander, George and Sergiuse, the Grand
Dukes Nicholas and Peter Nicolaie-
witch, the Grand Dukes Constantine
and Dimitri Constantinovitch, the
Dukes Eugene and George of Leuchten-
berg, Princes Alexander and Peter Of
| Oldenburg an dthe Prince Of Alien
burg. These were followed by the
suites of the Emperor, the Grand
Dukes and the Princes.
After the royal mourners on foot
there came in an open carriage, draped
in black cloth, attired in deep mourn
ing and attended by two Cossacks Of
the Chamber in black cloth liveries,
the Empress mother, with her two
daughters, the Grand Duchesses Xenia
and Olga.
Then came a long line of carriages
containing grand ladies of the courts
and maids of honor of the Expresses
and Grand Duchesses. Lastly, on foot,
two by two, were members of the
households of the hereditary Grand
Duke and a long line Of regiments Of
the guard, which accompanied the flu
neral procession to the fortress.
Here the Metropolitan Antoine Of
st. Petersburg and Ladoga celebrated
solemn funeral mass in the presence
of the Imperial family and court. The
Emperor and Grand Dukes carried the
coffin into the church and deposited it
beneath an immense dais, which was
covered with cloth of gold. Four gen
erals aides-decamp removed the lid OF
| the coffin and laid it on a table COW
cred with cloth of silver, specially pre-
pared. They then covered the lower
part of the body of the Grand Duke
with cloth of gold lined with ermine.
| A guard Of honor consisting of
general aide-de-camp, an aide-de-camp
| to the Emperor, two chamberlains and
TWO gentlemen of the bedchamber, four
officers and four non-commissioned Of
Ulcers of the regiments of the guard
will watch the coffin day and night
while the body lies in state during
three days.
All the theaters and places Of amuse-
ment will be closed and all music for
hidden