The court of Russia in the nineteenth century (1908) (14763859751)

Identifier: courtofrussiainn01hodguoft (find matches)
Title: The court of Russia in the nineteenth century
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Hodgetts, Edward Arthur Brayley, 1859-1932
Subjects: Russia -- Kings and rulers Soviet Union -- Politics and government 19th century Soviet Union -- Court and courtiers
Publisher: London : Methuen
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



Text Appearing Before Image:
mostenlightened statesman at the time, on the final committeeof three, the Court definitely submitted to the Emperoron the 9th July the following recommendations. The five ringleaders, including Pestel, Ruyleyeff,Mouravieff-Apostol.and Bestujeff-Ryoumen,to be quarteredalive; thirty-one others to be beheaded, and the remainderto be sent to penal servitude for life, and otherwise punishedin accordance with the degree of their guilt. The Emperor commuted these harsh sentences, andconsented to the death penalty being inflicted in the caseonly of the five ringleaders, whom Nicholas wished tohave shot because they were officers and gentlemen, but thecounsels of Benckendorff, if we are to believe vSchilder, pre-vailed, and they were hanged. Everybody knows the storyof the bungle with Ruyleyeff, who had to be hanged threetimes before he was successfully executed, which led to thefamous mot, put into the mouth of the victim himself : Inthis accursed country they cannot even hang you properly !
Text Appearing After Image:
THli EMPRESS ALEXANDRA, WIFE OF NICHOLAS I FROM A PAINTING BY HESSE IN BERLIN CHAPTER XIVA HOHENZOLLERN EMPRESS IN a previous chapter (Chapter XL) the fact is recordedthat the Emperor Nicholas, when still a GrandDuke, married in 1817 a daughter of his brotherAlexanders friend and comrade-in-arms, Frederick Wil-liam III. of Prussia. This charming and cultured Princess,the beautiful daughter of a famous and beautiful mother,lived to exercise an influence on Russian society of whichit is not too much to say that the effects are still makingthemselves felt. In a country only just awakening out ofa long barbaric slumber, in which the arts and humanitieswere yet in their first infancy, she was the centre of sweet-ness and light. By her love of music and the fine artsshe did much to kindle and develop those dormant artisticqualities latent in all Slavonic races, which, in the case ofRussia, have grown so generously and luxuriantly, creatingschools of music, painting, and literature peculiarl