The Winslow mail., 1915-02-13

Nicholas Nicholaievitch, were now the best in
Europe!
Meantime the Nicholas family life was not
free from the scandal which so often has made
the title grand duke" a reproach. He first mar
red the middle-ageL widow of a wealthy trader
He did not bring her to court but left her at
Moscow, where she would be safe from the
Sights her extraction might earn her in higher
company. She dieG and her husband, now rich
man, only too quickly welded the Princess Anas
tasia of Montenegro, with whom he had long
been in love. It while she was the wife OF
another man. the duke of Leuchtenberg, that
Nicholas Nicholaievtch wooed and won her. She
persuaded Car Nicholas to permit her divorce.
Anastasia is largeframed, vigorous, ambi
tous woman, devoted to the cause of the Slavs
She is frebrand and unscrupuous in methods
to further her husbands progress to the position
of natural leader Of the Russian Savs 1t is
said her husband is altogethe too intimate with
certain lady of the imperial ballet, but this
does not seem to affect the relations between the
welded couple. She is always magnihcently
clad and is as regal in figure as her husband
Throughout the Japanese the soldiers
hoped Grand Duke Nicholas would be ade their
leader and he was again and again promised to
them Many believed final disaster would have
been averted if the czar had conquered his jeal-
ousy of his popular cousin. After the wei, when
the throne threatened by the revolutionsts,
the czar was forced to fall back the he
had sighted and the grand duke restored order
by stern means. He was in danger of assassina-
ton, and commanded admiration by constantly
going about the streets unattended.
Just what happened when the present
broke out remains to be told 1t will be in
teresting story. 1t is known that the aspired
to follow the kaiser's example, take the field
with his soldiers, and 'be his own field marshal
What pressure was brought to bear to dissuado
him from this purpose and to force his accept
ance of Grand Duke Nicholas is hard to say But
there are rumors that the mobilization was well
along before the knew of it.
1t is to be remembered there is Julker party
in Russia as we'll in Prussia. And this party
claims the grand duke as leader
The present situation is this: The cabinet
council of the empire meets every day at Peter
hof It's resolutions are outwardy submitted to
the czar for confrmation but, as a matter Of
fact the cabinet simply o. ks the orders of the
al-powerfuI commander in chief and the cZar
then also attaches his signature. In time of war,
the cabinet does not dare defy the army head,
nor does the
If all this is concealed from the mass of the
Russian people, it is entirely clear to that astute
German the czarina. Supposed to be a nervous
invalid she has suddenly donned the garments of
the Sisters of Charity with her daughters and
entered the hospital wards She is present
at operations and has bound up the soldiers
wounds with her hands. Anyone who knows
the almost religious attitude of the Russian peas
ant to the Little Father" realize the wild
enthusiasm aroused among those whom the
ina thus visits
Can the czarina be striving to win Lack for
her family the personal popue "ty the grand
duke is taking from her husbands It may be so.