The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-22
NICHOLAS IN MOSCOW
CHAR IN ANCIENT CAPITAL OF HIS
 EMPIRE.
Patriotic Demonstrations Greet the Russian Ruler and He seems in
 the Best of Spirits--visit to the Kremlfn.

Moscow. May 21.-The Emperor's 1000 mile journey through North Rus sia. ended here this afternoon with A review of several sapper and engineer battalions, and a hurried visit to the shrine of the Iberian Virgin, and the church D'kremlin where he was crown : cd. ans
 The Emperor was met here with the same patriotic demonstration that has marked the whole progress of his trfp. He seemed to be in high spirits, and was pleased with the temper manifest ed by the people. as well as by the appearance and morale of the two corps he was sending 10 reinforce Gen. eral Kuropatkin. Besides, since His Majesty left St. Petersburg a week ago the news from the front has been very reassuring. The Emperor received the news of the destruction of the Japa- nese ships while at Toula. He ex- pressed sorrow at the death of so many brave men, but did not manifest senti- ments which he did not feel over the loss sustained by the enemy's fleet. The whole war to him is a regrettable oc- currence, for while he feels that Rus sia Is not responsible its horrors are memorable incidents of the unnecessary conflict.
 The Emperor's trip through the ancient capital, which he personally so much pre- fers to St. Petersburg, was almost in the nature of a triumphal procession Gem erai Tripeff, the Chief of Police, whose father was victim of the Nihilists in the time of Alexander IT.. preceded His Majesty. standing erect in his troika.
 The Emperor was driven up the hill and alone to the Miasnitskaia, the high turreted wall of which encloses the Tar A.. ~H through, the Vladimir portal, however, the cortege swung around to the right of the yellow Iberian gate, where stands tho little chapel of Our Lady. before which. no Russian passes without stop ping, and where the Emperor must al- ways go to pray before entering the Kremlin. His Majesty remained there three and a half minutes. Thence His Majesty passed into the Tartar city across the Red Square, in the centre of which still stands the execution block oppos- ite the tower on the top of the creme lated wall of the Kremlin from which John the Terrible watched the heads of his victims fall
 His majesty. then passed on to the Church of Basil, the Blessed. called the most beautiful church in the world, and the edifce in which Napo-
 
 gate of our Saviour. His majesty, like the ordinary Mujik, obeyed the order given by Emperor Alexis in 1647. that no one must pass through the Kremlin without uncovering. and reverently removed his cap as he drove under the portal into the tangled assemblage of monasteries, churches and palaces which crowded the hill. His majesty did not visit the imperial palace, but drove rapidly across the terrace which overlooks the shining city and the river flowing at its base. Just beyond the petit palace. the Emperor and his suite alighted and entered the ChrSch of Assumption. After a Te Deum had been sung the Emperor knelt upon the identical spot where he received the crown of his father under the colossal image of God painted in the cupola and there, amid incense burning cen- sors. prayed for victory for the Rus sian arms and received the blessing of the metropolitan.
 The imperial party then returned to the station, departing at ! o'clock for Tsarkskoeselo.