The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-09
TSAR OF RUSSIA HAS BEEN
 MADE PRISONER
Is Separated From Family At Alexander Palace
 Where Confined.
Especial correspondence)

Petrograd, July 9--Nikolas Alexen-
 drovitch Romanoff, as the. ex-Tsar is
 now called, is lodged in suite of
 apartments on the second floor of the
 Alexander Palace, at Tsarkoe-Selo, separated from those occupied by his
 wife and children. He has gwen his
 word of honor never to attempt to
 meet the ex-Tsarina. Alexander Eco dorovna- Whenever he visits his children, who live with their mother,
 she is conducted by the officer of the guard to another part of the palace None of the inhabitants of the
 Palace prison, who are mostly old servants are permitted to commun- icahe with the outside world, and a good guard is kept by the whole gar rison of Tsarkee-Selo.
 Contrary to his habit when he was the reigning monarch. Nikolas Alex androvitch now rises very late, about nine or ten a. m. and after cup of tea sends one of the soldiers out to buy the Petrograd newspapers. Never will he taste a drop, of the bottle of red wine which is brought every day. The author of the Deree suppressing the consumption of alcohol in Russia
 means to persevere in setting an ex- ample of total abstinence.
 F eIn6 aCOOkluS CO0L1nuc0 t0 OS 01I0Ct- ed by his French chef. Charles Oli- Ivier, who receives nine rupples day per head for those who are i'd fen the palace.
 Ex-Empress Like Marble Statue After lunch, always taken in the
 uniform of a Colonel, the rank to which he was promoted while his father was alive, Nilsolas takes a walk in the palace garden under the guard of the officer of the day. Twice every day he, and his family attend the church attached to the palace. There. quite separated from his wife, who Is behind a screen, he remains the whole time on his knees in fervent prayer. l The Ex-Tsarina, too, is of a very
 religious turn of mind. and appears l to be quite detached from the world. With face impressive anady lips closed tightly, she looks like a marble sta l tue. She never shows the slightest Interest in her children, and has new
 CT displayed any emotion except on i the occasion when she was separated
 from her lady-in-waiting and friend,
 Mile vyrubova, who first introduced
 her to Rasputin, and who, she had good reason for believing, had been J sent to the fortress of Sts. Peter and l Paul to oin Mime. 3Sukhomlinoff, the wife of the ex-Minister of War. 1 When Alexander Feodorovna Is not engaged with her daughters in mak- ing bandages for the wounded she is
 absorbed in reading books on reli- zion. Her letters, written on paper illustrated with religious subjects contain nothing but prayers and pious poetry, all signed with the initial "A'
 and a cross. These mystical tenden. I cies explain how it was that the false
 miracle worker Rasputin managed te get an influence over her.
 l Nikolas, on his part, seems abso-
 lutely indifferent to everything. Hi. conversations and his correspondence as we'll as of the other prisoners ars subject to a vigorous supervision by the Commandant of the Palace, { j friend of M. Kerenski, and only those letters which contain no a1lusion tt lpolitics arrive at the destination I Every step of the prisoners is follow i ed by sentinels spread in every cor ner of the Palace. In the same wa,
 the maids of honor and the cour
 reader are accompanied by a guart every time that one of them is sen
 for by the ex-Tsarina.
 I Whilst the surveillance is rigorous
 it never takes a hateful or discourte ous character.