Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1905 — Czarina Is a Vandal. [ARTICLE]

Czarina Is a Vandal.

A peculiar alteration made by the Czarina has been much talked about and criticised in St. Petersburg. She has had the study of Alexander IL, which up to now lias been preserved untouched, turned into a bathroom. In this room Alexander 11. signed the manifesto which abolished serfdom in Russia, and thus gaye liberty to 23,000.060 of his subjects. "However long I may live I shall never be able to do a better deed.” Alexander said when he had signed it. He expressed the wish that the room should remain just as it was. For forty’years nobody touched this sacred spot. But now, by order of the Czarina, all the documents and historical records have been put into a lumber room. The Imperial Library in St. Petersburg has taken steps to have’ at least the historical documents saved.— New York Commercial Advertiser.