El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-03-30
Love Letters
OfC&arina To
etED1berOr

her attitude toward constitutional
government. To her Russia's con-
sentative patriots are revolutionar4es-
Diminishing the Grand Duke
Il should quietly and with clear
conscience before the whole Of Russia
have sent Lvov 20 Siberia MiiiukoF'
Gutchkov and Polianov also TO 81
IBERIA" she confesses IN one OF ner
letters. In another she says
could hang Trepov." she heaps IN
suits without number on RodzianEo.
Sazonov. the foreign minister, she
despises. That pancake Sazanov,
she exclaims in a moment OF eIas-
zone dare not give a constitution,
she writes, as II would be your and
Russias ruin" On many another oc-
casion she emphasizes the importance
Of handing down 10 the czarevitch
Alexi the autoeraey as Nicholas IN
me Rule Of the Czarna
Gradually the empress concentrated
all mower in her hands. In 1914 and
largely in 1915, she IS still ABSORBED
in her hospital work and INDUCES ln
politics only occasionally But as
time goes on we see all threads run
Selos where the czarina received the
ministers. read their reports and acted
upon them, and where she wrote
these startling letters.
these letters The two passed very
little time together during the war
Nicholas was at the front, at main
army headquarters It is here that
{ she addressed 10 him most OF the cor
respondence- Necessarily since she
welded such tremendous power, these
I letters become important state papers.
Standards Set By the Monk
The wealth Of revelations contained
! in these pages is too vast TO be fully
. IL IN
mer. ProtopopoYs Ehvostov. sukhom-
7 iinoF-these, as well as all the other
/ Russian premiers and ministers dur
! ing the War-are revealed IN all theif
/ Intellectual and moral depravity- He
l who was a proteEe OF Rasputln was
the monk had 70 contend with the
Z venomous and relentless persecution
1 Of the czarina-
The letters do not prove that the
Z czarina plotted for a separate peace
] with Germany. On the whole. she
cannot be called the proGerman plot
ter and conspirator she is said 20 have
Z been. Here and there appear sign
OF her being in touch with her rela-
/ tives In Germany. Once in a while
she gives vent TO her adherence OF
the war and her desire for peace
Only once does she. give. expression "a
D antlalneQ feelings This was on tni
occasion OF lord kitchener's death
But even ENEn u was EeAe putin 8 no
her own. opinion. that she passes OF
10 the car Easputin was glad thai
Kitchener was Drowned. she tell
Nicholas, because Great Britain wa
to have the best OF Russia at the ent
Of the war
When Rasputln Was slain
The letters OF the czarina begir
with an exquisite love missive writ.
ten from peaceful Crimea in thl
/ sping Of 1914, three months befOri
the war broke out They end on De
cember 80. 1916. the day folloWing
Rasputln's murder at the house o.
prince tusupov, with this poignant
I cannot and won't believe he hai
been killed. God have mercyr
The czarina was Frustrated BY thi
event The car hurried 70 her bed,
side from the front. to lose his thron,
and liberty a few weeks later at tbs
hands OF his people. brought 70 thu
point OF rebellion by the misery. Is.
ranny and corruption OF q govern.
ment run by a crafty peasant monl
and a naive but domlneering woman
who was unfortunate enough 70 be.
come the vile OF The Weakiiug czai
Of an the Russias.-(Co Copyright 1928
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Tomorrow The Herald win
print the first OF the letters.