Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-05-23

~ full, in the pursuit of their end, built
- up after the havoc of the Mongol fury
new state around the obscure city of Moscow,
is one of the most remarkable in history. Yet In
1911 all their work seemed undone Ivan ~,
prematurely aged out, brokenhearted, hav-
ing murdered his eldest son in fit of manacal
fury, passed away in circumstances of the utmost
horror in 1854. For the next twenty years the
real ruler of Muscovy Ivans great minister,
Boris Godunov, of the new men" whom his
reforming zeal had called to the front Godunov
was in many ways an excellent ruler-he was
perhaps the most enlightened of the prePetrine
monarchs of Russia. But the great mobiles dis
liked him, and there is little doubt that he
cleared his path to the throne by making away
with Dmitri, the halfbrother Of the nominal Gear,
Feodor l., and his natural heir The great family
of the Romanofs stood near the throne for Fec
doris mother had been <Romanoff. While Fec
dor lived GOdunov dared not attack them but
when the weak monarch died in 1898 and the
minister. despite his less feigned reluc-
lance was elected his successor the whole fam
fly was banished.
Suspicion was the bane of the otherwise bene-
fetal rule of Boris. Finally, adventurer named
Gregory Otrepev gave out that he Prince
Dmitri, who had escaped from the assassins of
Boris, and raised formidable Instruction aided
by Sigismund III. king of Poland In the midst
of the war Boris died, and the fatal period of
troubles Of Russia began.
youthful Feodor H., of Boris. He proved an
admirable ruler, but he was Roman Catholic
and was murdered by the mobiles. Shuiski, one
of the consprators was elected Gar under the
title of Vasili ", but obtained no firm footing
Revolt everywhere broke out sprang up in every
direction, raised armies Of miscellaneous rufians
and Polish adventures, and spread terror and
devastation TO the gates of Moscow. For years
this anarchy lasted. The worst of the pretenders
was 1.-The Thief" whose lair was at Tushino near
Moscow, but everywhere the wretched country
was overrun and wasted by gangs of Cossacks
l. g., robbers. The desolation was fearful; in
five years the fruits of century of effort ap-
peared to have been hopelessly lost The wretch
ed Shuiski purchased, by the surrender of terri
tory in the Baltic provinces, the aid of Sweden;
but the result was to bring about Polish inva-
sion In 1909 Smolensk was besieged: next year
the great Polish general, Zolkiewski, defeated
and captured Shuski, entered Moscow and pro-
claimed Wladislaw, son of Sigismund Ill.
BY skillful diplomacy he occupied the Kremlin,
and gained some measure Of support for Wladis
law.
Russia seemed lost Smoensk held out with
bitter desperation for two years. but was at last
taken. THE Thief" was murdered. but his fol-
lowers held together and contested The posses
sion of Moscow desperately with the Poles. Half
the wretched city was destroyed in the course
of the struggle, but the famous Troitsa monastery
near the capital resisted siege after siege dur
ing the anarchy and refused to submit.
Here the movement to put an end to the pre-
waiting misery first took definite shape. The
abbot Dionysius and the administrator Abraham
Palitsin. took the lead In October, 1911, letters
we're sent all over Russia calling upon the peo-
Die to unite in defense Of their religion. Mini
Novgorod, led by Kuzma Mimi, master butcher,
at once responded with enthusiasm. Kazan,
Jealous of Mimi Novgorod, held back but all
down the Volga the towns joined the movement
and men and money came pouring into the
patriot city. Prince Dmitri Mikhailovich Poz-
harsd brave noble who had consistently OPP
posed the Poles and had been wounded almost
to death in the fighting round Moscow, was elect