Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-12-20
GAR, ny COMPARISON,
INSIGNIFICANT LOOKING

INSIGNIFICANT LOOKING
When he is with the Car the latter,
by comparison, iS weak and insignin-
cant look!ng-a coddled monarch. In
secret the Cars subjects are not slow
to speak this, and many avow his
tory of tho past twenty-five years
would have been far different If this
tall Mars had been in his cousjn,s
lplace.Athat the hunilia tionS.of tn q, leIa.l
feat BY Japan would have beer. spared
fhe=sproud Russians. 'S'SSSis7stl;ftiSs
1t Is to he remembered that the
cominanderin-c chief has taken his com
mission TO make him dictator OF Rus
STA. The proclamatons to the Poles
and Jews, promising liberties in ex-
change for loyalty during the war We're
not signed By the Car, but by Mich
o!as Nicholaievitch. This was aston
ishing in itself and. many have main.
tanned. made the promises null and
void, because the promising party
would never have the power, II he had
the wish, to carry out his obligations
to the oppressed peoples.
Yet would the Car dare to oppose
his victorious general by refusing to
grant a request TO carry out these
popular one for Nicholas Nicholaie-
witch
The history of Grand Duke Nicholas
begins In an unhappy youth He chung
TO his German mother. whose Russian
husband had wocfully wrongcd her and
ruined the family fortune. But come 10
manhood. he followed straight In his
fathers footsteps. for the parent was
one OF Car Alexander lis famous
field marsha!s. VINO many times had
scourged the enemies OF Russia
Alexander III was not especially fond
OF the young Grand Duke Nicholas. for
noble and peasant alike. consciously or
unconsciously. gave more homage TO
TINS splendid giant than TO the three
splndlin2. dull sons OF the ruler lie
ordered tha; the grand dukes army
activities must be limited TO the cav
airy, but the only result was soon to
be told that his horsemen. thanks to
Nicholas Nicholaievitch. were now the
best in Europei
Meantime. the Nicholas family life
was not free from the scandal which
so often has made the title Grand
Duke reproach. lie frs; married
the middle-aged widow of wealthy
trader. He d;d no; bring her to court.
bat left her at Moscow. where she
would he safe from the sights her
extraction might earn her in higher
company. She died, and her husband
now rich man. only too quickly
welded the Princess Anastasia OF
Montenegro. with whom he had long
been in love. 1t was while she was
the wife of another man, the Duke
of LeuchtenbcrG, that Nicholas Mich
olaicvitch woocd and won her. She
persuaded Gear Nicholas to permit her
divorce
AMBITIOUS WOMAN DEVOTED
TO CAUSE OF SLiyS
Anastasia is large framed ,vigor-
Gus, ambitious woman. devoted to the
cause of the 'Slavs. She is nrebrand
and INSCRIPTIONS in methods to further
her husbands progress to the position
OF natural leader Of the Russian SIavs.
1T is said her husband is altogether
too intimate with a certain woman OF
seem TO affect the relations between
the welded couple. She Is always
maSn!nccntly clad. and is as regal in
figure her husband
throughout the Japanese war the
soldiers hoped Grand Duke Nicholas
would be made their leader, and he
was again and again promised TO them
Many believed final disaster would have
been averted if tho Gear had conquered
his Jealousy of his popular cousin
After the war, when tho throne WINS
threatened by the revolutionists. the
Gear was forced to fall back on the
man he had sighted and the grand
duke restored order by stearn means
He was i'm danger of ASA ssnation, and
commanded admiration by constantly
going about the streets unattended.
Just what happened when the pres
ent war broke out remains to be told.
1t Will be an interesting story. Ii is
known that the Gear aspircd to follow
the kaiser's example, take the field
with his soldiers, and be his own
field marshal" What pressure was
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