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In the Pitti and the Uffizi in Florence, in the great gallery in Siena; in Venice, Rome, and Milan hung dozens of portraits resembling closely that of Gregory Novikh, the man who, to my own knowledge as I intend to here show, betrayed Russia, and destroyed the Imperial House of Romanoff. In that look I had foreseen in him something terrible; I had read the whole of his destiny in his glance.
"Count Romanoff, of Riga, finds himself in a position of pecuniary embarrassment." "Let Duplessis send him fifty louis; I formerly served as captain in his regiment, and he has since given us good information." "They have received at Philadelphia the last cargo of Histories of France, expurgated for the use of the faithful they require some more of the same sort."
In addition to these crowns are several rich diadems similarly ornamented. Many thrones are to be seen in these rooms, one adorned with 2,760 turquoises and other precious stones that of Michael Romanoff, the first of the reigning families, is enriched with 8,824 diamonds, and the throne of Alexis contains 876 diamonds and 1,220 jewels and many pearls.
DEMETRIUS. Ivan Wasilowitch, the mighty Czar Of Moscow, took five spouses to his bed, In the long years that spared him to the throne. The first, a lady of the heroic line Of Romanoff, bare him Feodor, who reigned After his father's death. One only son, Dmitri, the last blossom of his strength, And a mere infant when his father died, Was born of Marfa, of Nagori's line.
"Count Romanoff, of Riga, finds himself in a position of pecuniary embarrassment." "Let Duplessis send him fifty louis; I formerly served as captain in his regiment, and he has since given us good information." "They have received at Philadelphia the last cargo of Histories of France, expurgated for the use of the faithful they require some more of the same sort."
"But, O Lady, I beg of thee to heed these my words and remain calm and secure, for although attempts may be made, desperate perhaps, it is willed that none will be successful. God in His grace is Protector of the House of Romanoff, to whom a son will assuredly soon be born." Alexandra Feodorovna held her breath at hearing those words.
II. At the School of Europe It was owing to a series of dynastic revolutions and usurpations that young Michael Romanoff, Peter's grandfather, was chosen Tsar at the age of fifteen, in 1613. He was succeeded in 1645 by his son, Alexis Michaelovitch. Alexis, in his wars with Poland, recovered from her Smolensk, Kiev, and the Ukraine.
He was apparently the strongest of all the sons of Alexander II, being of the great Romanoff breed big, strong, muscular, like his brother the Emperor. He chatted pleasantly; and I remember that he referred to Mr. James Gordon Bennett whom he had met on a yachting cruise as "my friend." Another of these big Romanoff grand dukes was Alexis, the grand admiral.
Zuleika, retaining him as her assistant, picked nimbly out from their places and put in array the curious appurtenances of her art the Magic Canister, the Demon Egg-Cup, and the sundry other vessels which, lost property of young Edward Gibbs, had been by a Romanoff transmuted from wood to gold, and were now by the moon reduced temporarily to silver.
The royal line of Romanoff succession found in him rightful representative of its august power. Whatever may be said about the rigor of Russian rule and its conflict with Nihilistic tendencies, the quarrel so far as pertains to this young sovereign is that of a true inheritor. "Nicholas succeeded to Russian policies as essential allies of his crown.
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