Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1896 — The Czar’s Coronation. [ARTICLE]

The Czar’s Coronation.

The coronation of the Czar at Moscow text June is, if all one hears of it be true. » outvie in spleudor any “previous pageant >f the kind. The London Road offers a nirious contribution to tl»e descriptions in tdvapee. It gives an elaborate account if that will be used in the mperiol procession. The state horses, ae learn, are white, and of such color will be those harnessed to the carriage of .lie Czarina. Of all the carriages which will figure in the coronation procession—modern and ancient, witii their beautiful jaintings by Boucher, by Gravelot. by Watteau, forming a collection not to be *een in any other part of the world—none s more artistic, more beautiful, or so ricU n appearance as the two-seated carriage tl»e Czarina will be driven in. The Czar will be on horseback, as also the Grand Dukes. The royal vehicle, without doubt, ta the richest thing in the coaciimaker's »rt ever turned out. being of the heaviest gold repousse, the back |«tnel beautifully painted, and on the panel of the door the louble-beaded Russian eagle of large size in diamonds. Two genflcnieti of the court, high personages, walk behind, enacting the part of lackeys of honor; and in the small seat just behind the coachman, and facing (he Czarina, will lie seated two pages, especially chosen from the historical corps des )wtge4 de la t our, whose members are selected front the highest ranks of Russian society