RUSSIAN OFFICIAL PECULATION.
Czar Alexander’s celebrated present of a troika, six horses, and silver harness, to Emperor William 11. has caused trouble and distress in the imperial stables at St. Petersburg. The harness cost £3,000. While polishing it recently in the Berlin stables, the imported Russian coachman and two Germans discovered numerous yellow flecks, which indicated that the silver plate was wearing off. The coachman made a great hullaballoo over the discovery of the fraud, wept and cursed, and iinally gossiped so much about it that the Russian Embassy heard of the matter. A report on it was dispatched to St. Petersburg, and two days later Major General Martinoff', master of the Czar’s stables and several of his assistants, who had secured the harness for the Czar were dismissed. General Martinoff has since committed suicide in consequence, it is believed, of the exposure.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 44, 31 October 1891, Page 533
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143RUSSIAN OFFICIAL PECULATION. New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 44, 31 October 1891, Page 533
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