The Czar’s Armored Train

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 11, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 43.

The Czar’s Armored Train

THE slave of the imperial Russias is the czar himself. Better the liberty of the peasant with his black bread than the constant fear indicated by the following precautions:—

“A new Imperial train has just been built for the emperor of Russia. The saloons are covered with iron outside, and then come eight inches of cork, instead of the steel plates with which the carriages of the old train were protected. All the saloons (which communicate by a covered passage) are exactly the same in outward appearance, so that no outsider may be able to discover in which carriage the czar is traveling. During the emperor’s journey last autumn he passed most of his time in a carriage which from the outside looks like a luggage van.”