Evening star., 1923-03-28
Truth as to Death of Nicholas First
Revealed In Intimate Letter of Son

closed, and was sent of to live in
retirement. For Alexander did not
! rellsn having before his eyes all the
time the poisoner of his father. being.
hiere aIov Sorthearted than his uncle.
elevate to the rank of princes anG
! 10 accord the highest offices OF the
court and state to those great mobiles
actually concerned in the smothering
| and strangulation of his father. the
! almost wholly crazy Emperor Paul /
! an assassination to which Alexander
is next brother. Grand Duke Con
stantlne Paulovitch, was likewise privy-.
Ihat both of these sons of Paul
| We're stricken with remorse in afte-
years for their completely in the vio-
/ lent death of their father, was shown
IN number Of ways. Thus, when
Alexander ] was proclaimed, in 1926.
70 have died childless, Grand Duke
constantine, although czarovitch and
| acknowledged heir to the throne
waived his rights to the crown in
favor of his younger brother, Mich
olas |, who. on account of his youth
had been entirely free of any re-
sponslbility In the murder of Emperor
! Paul
| AS for Alexander ]. il is a matter
or legend, tradition and popular be-
lief that he did not really die, as
as5esea 1s9s ..c,ath at 7 Iaaganros, In December.
| meath the terrible burden" OF his
| crown, but that he survived until
1870 as a mysterious and profoundly
venerated hermit of the name of
r1mich toWn q, near raI,.lt the a remote Siberian
found difference by all the members
OF the imperial family, and who is
| SAID to have been none other than
Alexander /, doing penance for his
snare IN the murder of his father.
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The removal OF this veil OF rnys-
| terry, which has heretofore rested for
near three score years and ten over
the death Of Nicholas /, thus reveal
| ing ths only case in history of an
| anointed of the Lord ordering his
own assassination, Is only one of
many insights into the annals OF the
nineteenth century, which are to be
de deu1d ID in II the e.. impending, publication
addressed to the late Princess
fourievska-
Alexander II made no secret IN
these letters of his pronounced per
| sonal dislike for Queen Victoria, who
| reciprocated his sentiments in this
respect in the fullest measure, treat
ing him with the barest civility when
he visited England on the two occa-
daughter. Marie. to the old queens
sailor son. Alfred, Duke OF Edin-
burgh and of Coburg. He simply
! abhorred Lord Beaconsf1eld, denounc-
| ing him as "the Wickedest enemy OF
| Russia" and he was equally en-
| bfttered against old Prince Bismarck,
whom he described as Unsuitable; In
| fact, he insisted that he could only
| find in all England one thorough
gentlem an-namely, William E. Glad
stone. the Grand Old Man" who
would have preferred to see the Rus
slams in possession of ConstantinopIe
rather than to permit the continued
presence there of that sultan whom
he denounced as abdul the Damned"
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1t remains to be seen who Will
benefit by the very large sum of
! money that should be derived from
the publication in French. English,
German and Russian OF these amaz-
ing letters of Alexander Il, to the
one-time Princess Catherine DOL
gorouka. For she left two daughters,
Princess Olga, married to- Count
George Nuremberg (brother.. of that
Countess Torby who Is the morganatic
wife of Grand Duke Michaelovitch OF
Russia), and Princess Catherine. mar
ried to Prince Sergius Obolenski,
who last year was giving concerts
with his wife in London. for the sake
of Il livelihood, owing to the, ayaricei
of her now dead mother. There is
also a grandson of the late princess,
the tWenty-three-year-o r-old boy OF her
only SON., the late Prince George