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Title: Honeymooning in Russia
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Wood, Ruth Kedzie
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Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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tomb in the Peter-Paul church marked with his name; but many believe thatit is not he, the Emperor Alexander himself, who liesthere. In far-off Tomsk the occasional visitor is shownthe house and grave of a hermit, who came mysteriouslyto the Siberian town and who lived there unattended andunvisited until he died. When the young man who isnow Tsar, made an eastern journey before he wascrowned, he went out of his way to see the home andburial-place of Fomich. The supporters of the theorythat the hermit was the wearied Tsar have an array ofcorroboration almost convincing. If its true, said Philip, his good sense was com-mendable. He accomplished nothing worth while as aTsar. I should like to think that he was blessed by be-ing permitted to spend his last years as a plain man. His brother, Nicholas I, inaugurated his heartless reignwith the barbarous massacre of the Decembrists in theSenate Square. About the camp-fires of the defendingarmy during the war with Napoleon many sons of Russia
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A Chamberlain to the Tsar At the Tomb of the Tsars 33 had discussed the vital topic of her ailments and possiblecure. The organisation later known as the United Slavsgrew out of these earnest discussions, and its membershipincluded the noblest, worthiest names in the land. Whenthe death of Alexander was announced and there was adelay in proclaiming the new Tsar, the opportunityseemed ripe for the revolt against absolutism, longplanned and hoped for. But the golden moment passed in inaction, indecision,incompetence. Before the bayonets and guns of Nich-olas, whose imperial rights they had assembled to con-test, the Decembrists were mowed down like grain.Those who escaped immediate death were exiled, or hanged,or tortured later. Forty-two went mad within the prisonwalls of the Peter-Paul fortress. Blood flowed for thenext few years as it flowed during the rule of the Ivansand Peter the Great. Benkendorf established the ThirdSection, the Secret Police of Russia, who recognise nolaw, who

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