The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-13
GENERAL is RUSSIA'S
MOST POWERFUL MAN

| Al NOmo.
The Mouraviefs have played a very
considerable role In Russia, ever since
the fifteenth century. when they were
already noted as territorial magnates
and powerful Boyards OF tho Province
OF NovSorod One of the best known
| in the eighteenth century was that
! Nicholas Mouravicff, the poet and his
tor'an, who was selected by Catherine
the Great to direct the education OF
her Srandsons and who after the ac-
cession to tho throne Of his pupil
Alexander l.. was created by him Sen.
ator and Minister OF Public Instruction.
To Nicholas MouravicT Catherine the
Great confided the direction OF the to-
geographical survey OF her empire, and
he died as Governor of Livonia
| Alexander MouravieT. Governor Of
Novgorod. was one Of the principal
lieutenants OF Alexander II. in the OF
ganization of his emancipation of the
| serfs. To another member of the fam.
lily, Nicholas NichoIaiovitch Moura-
| vieff. the Emperor accorded the addi-
ton of Karski to his patronymic, In
recognition of his successful siege OF
/ <ars.
still another aIouravieff. also named
Nicholas. conquered for Russia all the
Eastern portion Of Siberia and re-
celved for reward OF his services
from Nicholas I. the right to add the
word Amurski to his patronymic. His
name is held in friendly memory, even
by the Revolutionists In Russia. owing
to his kindness while Governor-Gen
eral of Siberia, to Michael Bakounine
the father Of the revolutionary move.
mcnt and tho founder of Nihilism. who
after having been member of the i'm.
peral household, was exiled to Siberia
for his political offences. He was
kinsman OF Mouravien. and there has
always been question as to how far
the latter facilitated his revolutionary
cousins escape. At any rate. his
reign believed him to be guilty
For he deprived him OF his governor
generalshp Immediately afterwards
and RELOCATED him to private life and
obscurity.
Still another Mouravief. in command
OF a Russian squadron of twelve men
of-war. appeared In the Bay OF Toxic
Immediately after the departure OF
Commodore Perry some sixty years
ago, and at the point of his guns. com.
PEELED the reluctant Japanese to grant
to the Car tie same treaty rights as
those which had just bees accorded to
the United states
No less than ten Mouravieffs figure
In the annals of their family as nav
ing been sent to Siberia In chains for
political crimes. willie one of them was
hanged as a conspirator by Nicholas l..
III 1879, HES Oue1CC> having consisted
in heading the movement that called
upon the new Gear to fulfil the pledges
made by his brother to grant the peo-
pie a constitution
Finally, there is that Count Michael
MouravicH. who was dictator Of Po-
land little over n century ago, and
who acquired so unenviable celebrity
both in Poland and abroad, by the ter
rlble severity with which he suppress
ed the Instruction. He, too, succumb-
ed TO poison, that Is to say to a dose
OF arsenic. supposed to have been adj
ministered by Nihilist.
That Prince Buelow still retains a
very remarkable amount OF influence
with the Kaiser and with the govern
mtN1t at Berlin, Is shown in a strik-
ing manner by recent appointments
Prince Lchnowsky, who last fall was
appointed to tho post OF ambassador
in London. had been one Of his prin-
cipal secretaries, and wholly devot-
ed to him that he had retired from the
| government service when Buelow re-
signed the chancellorship OF the en-
pire
Another of Buelow's private secre-
tarics. and most trusted leutenants, a
member, indeed OF his household
Gottlieb Won Jagow. has lately been
| appointed Secretary Of State for For
ciSu Ani!IS 1T berllu, ana now the
| Emperor has appointed Baron Martin
Won Rucker Jenisch first cousin OF
Prince Buclow. to the post OF German
Ambassador at Rome. where the Bue-
lows have made their principal home
at the villa Malta. which belongs to
them. ever since the prince gave up
the chancellorship. In view OF the in
timacy between the baron and the
| prince, one can only see in the APP
pointment of the former desire on
| the part of the Emperor to please Bue-
| low
Martin Won Rucker-Jen is very
rich, was created baron some six
years ago with the right to add his
mothers name of Ienisch to his own.
and Is the son of the late DIR. Ruckcr,
whose sister was the mother of Prime
Buelow. Both the Jenisch and the
Rucker families have figured for hun
dreds of years In the annals OF Ham
burg as among the untitled patriciate
of that Free City, possessing a sort
Of hereditary right to the dignity of
Senator Of Hamburg. In fact, the late
DR.. Rucker was at one time Minister
| Plcnipotentiary of Hamburg to the
court of st. James.
His son. Baron Won Rucker- Jei,isch
the newly appointed German Ambas-
sador ut Rome. was as Martin Won
| Rucker, attached TO the German Lega-
ton at Washington. in 1887 and 1882
in fact, Washington was his first Dip
lomatic post. He is about flfty-three
years of age. and rnarrica FIVE years
ago his cousin, Countess Thyra Grote
who is about twenty years his junior
He is a particular favorite of the ~
peror. and has frequently been called
upon to accompany the latter in his
travels abroad. as a representative of
| the Department of Foreign Affairs at
Berlin. and like Won JaEow, Prince
| Buelow, and the present Chancellor of
the empire. Won Bethman-H ollweg is
an Alter Herr" that Is to say, a vet
eran of the famous student corps of
Borussia. at Bonn. to which the EN-
peror also still belongs in that capa-
city.
Copyright. 1913. by tho Brentwood
Company