Russia’s Royal House

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 29, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 13.

Russia’s Royal House

Russia's Royal House.—An anonymous Russian writer, in a thirty-page article in the London National Review, after setting forth conditions in Russia, declares that autocracy is "at its last gasp," but he declares that it is not the Russian ship of state that is in danger, the danger threatens the men at the helm. He declares—and he seems to know—that the czar is truly responsible for the tyrannies and cruelties of officialdom in his realm, but that he had no sense of the sufferings of the poor in his domains; that he considers the whole empire is not a state, but his estate, to be administered for the benefit of himself and family. Usually the grand dukes have been blamed. This writer declares that their influence on the czar is not nearly so great as has been declared.