The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-12-27
SECRET NEWSPAPER
PRINTED FOR CAR
Only One Copy, But 1t Gives
Detailed News of the
Whole Empire.
TAB KEPT ON. TOLSTOI.
MARGINAL NOTES SHOW THAT
NICHOLAS READS WITH THE
UTMOST cARE-PEEP INTO THE
EMPERoR's LIBRARY.

s. st. Petersburg, Dec. 26.-It has for a
long time been thought. not only in
Russia, but also abroad, that the life
Of Car Nicholas II resembles that of
prisoner, and that all knowledge of
what is going on in Russia at large is
carefully kept from his ears. All the
responsibility for the horrors that have
made Russia shambles has been plac-
ed upon those who surround him-the
mobiles and the bureaucracy--the car
himself being described as a good,
harmless man, who, with a different
environment and better counsellors,
would rule his empire to universal sat
isfaction.
Access, however. has lately been
obtained to the cars library, which
has led to the discovery of the kind of
literature which Nicholas II, is in the
habit of reading and to the discovery
also of the "Czar's Journal" which.
although it has been heard of for
years, has hitherto never been seen by
any one except his immediate advisers.
At the express wish of the car only
one manuscript copy of this journal is
privately issued by the members of
the Committee of Censors of Foreign
Literature, under the immediate direc-
ton of the minister of the interior,
and it can be imagined how difficult it
must have been for any one else to
obtain sight of it.
Many Volumes of the journal.
Ten to fifteen folio volumes of this
work have appeared yearly of 500 to
600 pages apiece, and to these volumes
have been added number Of reviews,
letters, printed material, brochures,
manifestoes, lottery tickets Of the rev.
dictionary Red Cross, etc. On every
volume are notes by the minister of
| the interior or his assistant. stating
the place and time at which car read
the journal and his remarks concern
! ing it. Marginal notes have also been
added by Lieut.. Gen. Won Hesse, the
cars court favorite. The additions
of the minister of the interior, Cor
emykin, and his assistant in the repro
duction of the journal, Baron Jukull,
were compiled from these notes.
To Judge by the table of contents
of this publication, Nicholas II. would
seem to be one Of the best informed
persons in Russia concerning the revo-
luton and it's history, for through the
perusal of this journal he must have
been aware of almost every detail of
| tho roynlutfnporv cfrucOlo cinca 1907
Not even the leaders of the revolu-
tiopary movement themselves were
able to obtain such complete Stats
tics and SO full an account Of the cpl
sodes of the movement as that pos
sessed by the car.
Accounts of the arrests of notable
revolutionaries; the risings of the
peasants; the strikes; the suppressed
printing houses, clubs and unions the
relation of the home revolutionaries
with those who had ernigrated to Eng
land and Switzerland; the newly pub
1ishe1 revolutionary books, brochures
and proclamations (even Klara Zet-
kin's pamphlet on the economic posi-
ton Of women is mentioned); the per.
secution of the Jews; the quarrels be-
tween nihilists. are all, to be found
in the journal. On all documents OF
interest, letters, etc., is written in the
cars hand, Read with enjoyment. u
Kept Tab on Tolstoi.
Each volume contains an exact sum
mary of all revolutionary events oc
curing during a certain period, as OBJ
tanned by the political police.
In many of these journals the name
of Count Leo Tolstoi appears. and tc
judge by the regularity of the infor
nation about him. and the speed with
which the contents of his intercepted
letters were impaired to the car, the
latter has taken a special interest in
the author.
1t must be pointed out that the philo
sopher of Assnaja, Poljana, in spite Of
his knowledge of human nature, fol
: long time shared the general opin
: ion concerning the character of the
: car, whom he therefore frequently
undertook to enlighten and convert, as
for instance, in an open letter in 1899
: and in many of his works respecting
t students demonstrations, religion:
: prosecutions, etc.
= Nicholas had, however, interested
' himself in everything Tolstoi under
took, and, through the medium of hi
5 spies, observed his every step. TIL,
consequences of this curious relation
was that while the poet himself wa
f were prosecuted and his writings ocn