Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1899 — The Czarina as a Cartoonist. [ARTICLE]

The Czarina as a Cartoonist.

In an illustrated story of the Empress of Russia in the Young Woman we are told that the Czarina speaks five languages and that riding, painting, rowing, sketching, swimming, and tennis are among her recreations. But one of her favorite amusements is in drawing caricatures. Her skill as a cartoonist would make even “F. C. G.” jealous. Free from the fear of the censor, she indulges with her pen and pencil in a way which which makes even Russian ministers tremble, drawing them in caricature which would mean death or Siberia to. any other artist. She has drawn the Czar himself—a solemn, bearded, but bald infant in long clothes, tied in an armchair and surrounded by a host of grand dukes and grand duchesses armed with feeding bottles, all insisting on feeding him in a different way. No wonder the Czar is screaming at the top of his voice.—Birmingham Post