THE WORLD'S WEALTHIEST MAN.
The Tsar of Russia is the wealthiest man in all the world, far richer even than John D. Rockefeller, or any of the Rothschilds. His civil list alone amounts to something like £2,51)0,000 a year, and more than a half of this is available for his own use In addition, the Tsar, owns land in European Russia equal in area to the whole of Ireland, and derives from it the colossal revenue of £0,000,000 per annum. And then he also owns land in Siberia which, even in its present undeveloped state, brings him in well over £1,000,000 a year. The Tsar's annual income, including the interest on. his savings, has been estimated at £7,500,000. Seeing, therefore, that the Tsar puts aside every year a large sum of money for each of his four daughters, the prince who contracts a marriage in that quarter is likely to do extremely well for himself from a worldly point of view.
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Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14791, 24 April 1914, Page 7
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161THE WORLD'S WEALTHIEST MAN. Thames Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 14791, 24 April 1914, Page 7
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