Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-06-16
EEPFORMER CAR
FROM SEEING WIFE
Otherwise New Russia
Treats Old Ruler With
Great Consideration
is WATCHED BY GARRISON
BY CHARLES F. BERTELLI
(Copyright. 1917. by international News


PARIS. June is.
Although they pulled him from his throne.
the Russian people are treating their for-
mer Car with the greatest consideration.
Details Of the prison life Of Nicholas
Alexandrovitch Romanoff, the former Cxar.
which have just been received in Paris
from Petrograd, show that except for the
fact that he is not allowed to see OF writA
TO the former Czarina. he Is being treated
kindly The lenient condition OF his Inn
prisonment is in marked contrast with the
atrocious sufferngs inflicted upon Russian
political prisoners under the Imperial re-
gime
Nicholas. his wife and children are kept
under guard at their old residence. the Alex
ander Palace, at Tsarskoe-Selo Those Of
his former ministers or state functionariea
most involved in the treacheries OF his
reign are lodged in the famous Peter and
Paul fortress. now nicknamed the Russian
baste
The former Car lives in an apartment
on the second floor Of the Alexander palace
away from his wife and children. He has
| given his solemn word never to seek to
meet the former Czarina. Alexandra
| Feodorovna. Before he visits the children
the Czarina is removed by the guards to an
other part Of the palace
Generally speaknk. all the Inhabitants
| OF the palace prison, including the few per-
| sons belonging TO the old imperial suite and
the servants, are forbidden to Communicate
with anybody outside They are guarded bv
| the whole Tsarskoe-Selo garrison
F.. Contrary to his custom while he reigned.
| Nicholas rises late, between . and 10
o'clock, and after taking tea he reads the
| Petrograd newspapers. especially the Retch
and the Bourse Gazette. He is also sup-
| scriber to the Moscow Russkoie Slovo
| which is addressed to him thus, nicholas
Alexandrovitch Romanoff, Alexander PAL
ace"
The former Car lunches about 1 and
dimes at g. At luncheon he eats merely
vegetables and desserts to his evening meal
he adds only FISH. He never eats meat
Half bottle of wine is served to him daily
bu. he never touches It. and the bottle al
ways goes back with the seal intact As
the author of the prohibition decree, Mich
olGs intends to continue setting an example
of absolute abstinence.
A French chef still presides over the
kitchen. Charles olivier. whose table al
lowance is only $3.50 per head daily.
The little CZarevitch. Alexis. who is still
in I'll health, is alone permitted to choose
freely what he shall eat and to take his
1 meals In bed.
After luncheon dressed in a coIonel'I
uniform, Nicholas Romanoff. as he is uni.
, versally called now takes a walk in the
palace grounds under the surveillance Of
an officer Twice daily the former CzaI
| and his family attend church services II
the palace chapel. Upon these occasion,
he does not see his wife. She is concealed
behind an especially built screen. She al
ways remains upon her knees for a lonl
| time in prayer.
The former Czarina seems to be SUFFERING
n from a religious mania Her appearance,
e is that of one completely isolated from tn,
world. Her face is impassiye, her lips ar,
Q | tightly set her eyes show strange lgh
{ and she reminds one of nothing mucl
as a marble statue. She shows interest II
8 lselothing and none but her children. Onl
s. once has she broken down since the revolu
n ton. That was when she was separate
e. from her iady-in-waiting and friend, Nm,
). Vroubova. II was this woman who intro
u duced the former Czarina to the Monk Ras
n putin She was sent to the fortress o
Peter and Paul along with Nine. Soukhom
linoff wife OF the former Minister a pro
German.
e When Alexandra Feodorovna is not witt
10 her children or engaged in making up line
n for the wounded, she is always found alb
% sorbed in peculiar works, particularly thos
n OF the late Father John, of Kronstadt II
" was the founder Of the Joannite sect.