The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-01-29

Nicholas Nicholaevitch, 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 reproach. He first mar
ried the middleaged widow of 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. 1t was while she was the wife of
another man, the duke of Leuchtenberg that
Nicholas Ncholaevitch woOed and won her. She
persuaded Car Nicholas to permit her divorce.
Anastasa is a large-framed vigorous ambi-
tous woman, devoted to the cause of the Slavs.
She is a frebrand and unscrupulous in methods
to further her husbands progress to the position
of natural leader of the Russian Slavs. It is
said her husband is aogethe too intimate with
a certain lady OF the imperial ballet, but this
does not seem TO affect the relations between the
welded couple. She is always magnifcently
clad and is as regal in figure as her husband
Throughout the Japanese war the soldiers
hoped Grand Duke Nicholas would be ode their
leader and he was again and again promised to
them. Many believed final disaster would have
been averted If the car had conquered his ieal-
ousy Of his popular cousin. After the waI, when
the throne threatened by the revolut,onsts,
the car forced to fall back on the man he
had sighted and the grand duke restored order
by stern means. He was In danger of assassina-
tion, and commanded admiration by constantly
going about the streets unattended.
Just what happened when the present war
broke out remains TO be told. II will be an IN
terestng story. II is known that the car aspired
to follow the kaisers example, take the field
with his soldiers, and "be his own field marshal"
What pressure brought to bear TO dssuadJ
him from this purpose and to force his accept
ance OF Grand Duke Nicholas is hard to say. But
there rumors that the mobilization we'll
along before rhe car knew OF Il.
II is to be remembered there is a Junker party
In Russia well as 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 outwardly submitted to
the for confirmation: but. q matter OF
fact the cabinet simply o. KS the orders OF the
alipowerful commander in chief and the
then also attaches his signature In time OF
the cabinet does not dare defy the army head,
nor does the czar
If all this IL concealed from the mass OF the
Russian people, II is entirely clear to that asute
German. the czarina. Supposed to be o nervous
invalid. che has suddenly donned the garments OF
the Sisters OF Charity with her daughters and
entered the hospital wards She is even present
at operations and has bound up the soldiers
wounds with her own hands. Anyone who knows
the almost religious attitude OF the Russian peas
ant to the Little Father can realize the wild
enthusiasm aroused among those whom the czar.
ina thus visits
Can the czarina be striving to win lack for
her family the personal popularity the grand
duke is.taking from her husband' II may be so.