Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-04-06

E.holls II car az all the Russians
has Ned 10 the palace Of Tsmskoo-selo
and shut himself In to escape assas-
spauon by the Nlh.lIs,s So say the
cable dispatches from S, Petersburg
AZ the imperial palace sixteen miles
out of the Russian capital amid splen-
doris that outshlpe the maryels Of the
Arabian Nights the mishtlest autocrat
Of AN the world Is selt-constItuted
prisoner
with an army Of 100000 men to do
his will, unQuestIonng and bIndly he
Is fugitive from q handful Of rtorm-
ers using dynamite 20 execute their
will. says the Chicago Record-Herald'
Nicholas rules as an absolute mon
arch over l800O10O0 subjects and yet
shrlnks with terror from the sight OF
his people. among whom the royal rev.
erently can him "Our father
The sovereign whose nod Is sufficient
10 alarm Great Britain or annex Aslatlc
nations starts with fear at the slam
ming Of q door and trambles at the pat
err OF a mouse scamperlng across the
floor.
The supreme pontf Of the Greek
church Of Russia must forego his custo-
mary worship By the side Of the tombs
OF his ancestors IN the Cathedral OF
Saints Peter and Paul and seek rell-
Elous consolation In private chapel
within the palace grounds, surrounded
at every step by an armed guard.
Though having an income Of Slb0OQ,.
900 a year and opportunities Of making
Il 100000 600, the emperor Is forced by
the terrorlsts TO abandon the pleasures
OF life and live In secluson.
With his waking hours filled by fear
and his sleeping hours haunted by
Nightmares, with his most intimate Of
folals under supcIon Of treason, know
Ing from sad history that the Nihillsts
carry their deadly explosives into the
most carefully guarded chambers Of the
imperial palaces Nicholas H. never
very robust, Is said 10 be breaking down
under the strain.
The history Of the last few years has
shown no other spectacle Of such pow
er contrasted with such terror, Of such
magnlncence coupled with such re-
stralnt.
Tsarskoe-Selo, IN which the Russian
emperor has taken refuge from the riot
ers and assasslns, Is not only at some
distance from ST. Petersburg, but Ia
surrounded by an extensive park elgh-
teen miles In circumference. These
grounds may be guarded by a Gordon
OF soldiers and no suspicious person
can approach the palace In which the
car Is hidden from the public. II he
is reached by any OF the wood-be as
sasslns II must be as a trusted member
OF the imperial household or as an ofIl
clal OF the government summoned by
his chief.
Catherine II. built the Tsarskoe- selo
palace In l74i, and II was the retreat in
which she liked TO receive her favorltes.
Here she gathered her couriers and
showed them the genial side Of her ma
ture. When Lanskoi died in her arms
she shut herself up here for three
months 10 mourn his memory She built
him a beautiful tomb and mourned nj
II for two years. Since the time of the
great empress II has been a favOrite
summer resort OF the Romanoffs, be-
cause II Ia considerably higher than
the marshy, malaral level Of the capi-
tai.
The palace Ia $50 feet long and Its IA
cades are adorned with caryatides, pit.
asters, capitals. brackets. statues and
vases In rlotous prodlgality. These or.
naments were originally covered with
gold leaf az cost Of 100000 ducats
hut the gllttering surface has long since
disappeared except on the dome and
cupolas Of the church within the
grounds.
The interior Of the palace Is over.