CZAR’S EMPTY TOMB.

Western Star, 12 October 1926, Page 3

CZAR’S EMPTY TOMB.

‘La Liberte’ publishes a new account of the opening by the Soviet Gov ernment some time ago of the tombs of the Ozar’s situated in the fortress of Peter and Paul. Their object was solely to rob the graves of the jewels and other precious Objects • which-were buried with the dead rulers. After having opened the graves of Peter the Great and Catherine the tomb-break ers turned to the grave °f Czar Alexander the Great. To their utter, .astonishment .they found that it was empty. ; ■ This would seem to confirm a strange legend, writes -vfche Paris correspondent of the ‘morning Post,’ which was told of the Czar, namely, that he was still living long; after he was officially dead. Alexander’s official death took place in 1823, but rumors were soon heard that the body of the Czar had not been- in the coffin, but that lie was still alive, and had retired to some'lonely spot to spend the vest of his life in rest and meditation. When a. mysterious hermit died at Tomsk many years later without revealing his name or his origin It was believed lie may have been the Czar. The recent discovery of the Bolshevists would seem to confirm the old legend.