Identifier: injoyfulrussia00loga (find matches)
Title: In joyful Russia
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Logan, John A. (John Alexander), 1928-
Subjects: Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia, 1868-1918
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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icest selections of music from a raised plat-form in the corner of the room diagonally opposite tothat occupied by the imperial family. And while every-thing was conducted with a due and formal regard forthe etiquette of the occasion, there was an air of reliefat the imperial table, as if its occupants were quietly say-ing, It will soon be over, while the royal and nobleguests were quietly jolly among themselves, as becamethe august and auspicious event. The banquet finished, the Emperor reassumed hiscrown, sceptre, and globe, and left the banqueting hallfor the Throne Eoom. I can not help wondering howthe ancient Tsars managed to carry out half or a quarterof this ceremonial. If rumour be true, they were, like theearly Anglo-Saxon kings, rather given to look upon the winewhen it was red, and, if they managed to carry the in-ternal and the external load safely from the GranovitayaPalata back to the Throne Eoom, they must have beenblessed with a capacity to which the present generation
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AN IMPERIAL FEAST. I43 is entirely strange. In the Throne Eoom the Emperorlaid aside for the last time on his coronation day thecrown of Peter I and the emblems of his kingship, and,slipping back almost into private life, he, his mother, andhis wife made their way to their apartments. I should like to know what the Tsar himself thoughtof it all, what were his true feelings, and whether he wasthoroughly satisfied with the exalted position which hehad just occupied in all its completeness. Certainly, everyone else was loud in praise of the dignity, gentleness, andmodesty with which he carried himself during one of themost trying days that mortal could be called upon to passthrough. But what does he think of it? Perhaps someof these days he may write down for the public What Ithought of my Coronation, as the Queen of Englandhas let all the world into her domestic life at Balmoral.It would prove interesting reading. But I dont thinkId try it if I were the Tsar. One half of the significanc

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