The Washington herald., 1915-04-25
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the coarse garb OF a workman, he Ia
bored on the construction Of a frigate.
To escape the curiosity Of the crowds.
when his identity became known in Am
town Of Zaandam. where the cabin in
which he lived has become one Of the
tourist shows of Holland. The Cars
now own that humble abiding place OF
and they have housed it in an ornate
structure which all but conceals it ]
am glad I did not know at the time OF
MY pilgrimage to it that Peters resi-
dence in the hut was limited to one
week.
After going to England and working
in a dockyard there. the Gar returned
to the Kremlin with a new zeal to make
ern nations. And he went about the
task with ukase and knout. While he
locked his own wife up in a convent he
commanded every other husband in the
free his womenfolk from their long Sc
clusion. and admit them to all social en-
tertainments. At the same time he de-
creed that no girl should be married
without her consent.
All the men in Russia were ordered
to put of their flowing Oriental dress
and in a day the innovating Car thrust
the whole nation into breeches. Him.
self beardless by nature. he laid heavy
tax on boards. ever the pride Of the Rus
slams. and the race stood forth sheared
in a land strewn and carpeted with shorn
whiskers. Thereat rebellion boldly stalk
ed forth. the rebels rising as they pro
cause of the beard shearing and the Ger
man clothes" The leaders were captur-
ed. however, and nearly 400 Of them were
broken on the wheel in the Kremlin;
brother, Ivan. and giving it to the swine
and after filing the Kremlin with un-
Imaginable horrors. Peter grew weary OF
cutting of the perverse heads OF the
Moscovians and he abandoned the town:
Going to the wild and dreary marshes OF
the Neva, he set up his throne there
and erected the city of Petrograd.
In his new capital he went on with
his Herculean labors for the remaking. Of
Russia, which he raised to an empire.
with himself as the first Emperor. He
systematized national and loca! govern
ment; prompted education and SANTA
ton. in each of which. however. Russia
still lags far behind; he organized a big
standing army and built a large feet
Of naval vessels; he forwarded the
planting Of the fields and the mining
throw away the sickle and reap with
the scythe; he introduced useful manu-
features; he cut eight letters out OF the
alphabet: but not enough because IT
before he died he wrote out his instruc-
lions for the guidance Of Boring on the
journey which took that explorer and
the HuSSlan edSleS 10 DerlnS oudils
-Four Women Rulers.
Having tortured to death his son and
heir, when the Car himself faced the
dread messenger whom he had sent
against SO many hundreds Of his help
less subjects. there was no one to take
his throne He had exterminated his
own line Of Romanoffs. and the de-
scendants of the imbecile Ivan ", who
for q while had reigned jointly with
him, were the only heirs to the crown.
Tho strangest consequences Of Peters
unnatural deed, however. was that for
morris more thsn TAI h century . nus seepser
came tho autocrats Of q nation which
long had looked upon women. only ~
slaves or prisoners. The first Of those
Empresses was the great Cars second
wife. who was neither q RomanofI nor q
Russian, but an ignorant German girI
from the Baltic Coast. This Catherine
I had married q Swedish dragon ana
had been taken captive by the Russians
before she took captive their Emperor.
A dissolute life. however. paid the In