THE CZAR OF RUSSIA.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10595, 12 September 1896, Page 2

THE CZAR OF RUSSIA.

The Vienna correspondent of the Daily News sends some interesting detail.! of observations made by the Neve Freie Presse correspondent during his visit to the coronation fetes at | Moscow. He says thst the young Emperor is as different from his father as possible.. He is slight and of small stature. His eye meets j the gsjze of everyon-j unflinchingly. His exI preasion is kind and almost childlike in its friendly ingeuuousnefs. It is not true that'he has an aversion to the army; he is very fond of reviews, paradefij and visits to the camps. Ho is contcieutiou;, reads all the documents placed before him, listens to his councillors whenever they crave bis ear, and never has auy arrears of work. What be. thinks of IWtK or of his unlimited power no one has yet guessed. He is the unfathomable mystery of Russia. He was always reserved, bub since his accession he is more so. He speaks very little, and aoswer.) only what is necessary. There is the same insurmountable wall between him and the people which existed iv his father's timo. He seemed at'first inclined to pull it down, but he his been convinced that this would not ba good. He rarely expresses an opinion riiffsrfnfc from that of his Ministers. " I feel my youth," he said to one. "I will not act without experience." His father's views have still their weight with him. He loves his mother devotedly, but she is,also conservative, and repaatK the words of the late Czar. She has morn political influence than in her husband's time, and all Russia is wondering how iong this • influence will reign supreme; The young Court and th& old do not sit side by side, but 'in opposition. Tha JSmperor is very fond of his young wife, and in the centre of a brilliant Court, destined, the writer thinks, to extinguish all true and warm feeling, the young Czar preserves intact a warm love for the sweet. companion of his youth. So far, however, the young Empress exercises no political influence. Sbeis still German, and h»rd at work to get over her prejudices and likings. Husband and wife are almost inseparable. When he is at work in his study he likes her to sit beside him, engaged on'embroidery or similarly occupied. Of fen » Miniiter comes, and she rises to go, but the Czar invariably s»ys, "Stop here, iSasch ! You do not disturb us in the least," and the Empress remains and continues to w<yk in silence.