Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1884 — The Fate of Russian Rulers. [ARTICLE]

The Fate of Russian Rulers.

The church of SS. Peter and Paul is the burial place of the Emperors, and a solemn place it is: The large white tomb of Alexander 11. is regarded with veneration and surrounded with emblems of grief; they call him their martyr emperor and honor him as the emancipator of the serfs. Next lie 3 his father, Nicholas 1., who poisoned himself. By his side is the body of his eldest brother, who, having married a Polish lady for love, abdicated the throne, which he had forfeited by marrying beneath him. But the abdication could not save him; he disappeared, and his death was considered necessary to avoid a revolution. Our guide, continuing the sad history, said: “Here lies Paul, who was suffocated; there is the body of Peter 111., who was assassinated; there is the tomb of Annie, who was exiled to Siberia and died of a broken heart, and next lies her son, who was stabbed.” We looked at the gilded magnificence of the church and the calm of the beautiful marble tombs, and shuddered with horror at the recital.— St. Petersburg Cor. Hartford Times. ,