THE RUSSIAN THRONE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 83, 8 December 1913, Page 4

THE RUSSIAN THRONE.

A correspondent of "Free Russia,' writing on the subject of the Rusuiai Imperial family, says: "Wanted, ai

heir! Wonted to save the dynasty. The young Alexis, suffering from an incurable disease—tuberculosis of the bones, it is said, —c;ui only be kept alive, the doctors say. for a few months longer. The Tsar himself lias become a victim of fits of melancholy. His consort, the unfortunate Tsarina, is still suffering acutely from a complete nervous breakdown. The question therefore arises, Who will be the heir to Nicholas the Second, or will he bo the last of the au.tocra.ts of Russia? The daughters of Nicholas 1 cannot ascend the throne, because Paid 1., who hated his august mother, Catherine the Great, made a law by which it became impossible for a woman to reign in Russia. Therefore, in the case of the demise of Nicholas IT., the throne should fall to his brother Michael. Bub this is hardly possible, since he has renounced all his rights, arid.has married morganatically a Russian lady with whom he lives very happily far from Court intrigues." The writer, goes on to discuss the Grand Dukes, and finds insuperable objections to all of them.