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Title: Peaceful personalities and warriors bold
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Villiers, Frederic, 1851-1922
Subjects: War correspondents
Publisher: London New York : Harper
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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n during the Coronationfestivities. Most English people, led by thesenewspapers, imagine the Emperor a cowering,trembling being, afraid to look out of one of thepalace windows because of the possibility of a shotfrom some lurking ruffian in the palace grounds, orreluctant to sit down at table for fear of a bomb inan entree dish. There was nothing of this fear on the part ofAlexander III. I first met him when, as Czara-vitch during the Russo-Turkish campaign, he cameto take command of the army of the Lom. Iwas invited to the banquet given in his honour,and was presented to him by his A.D.C, CountShouvaloff. We stood chatting for some time,eating cold boiled eggs and caviare and drinkingvodki by the sideboard, d la Russe^ in the luncheon-tent. He spoke English remarkably well, but notso fluendy as his A.D.C, and during luncheon I satbetween the two. Alexander III. was a fairly goodsoldier, and could rough it as well as his officers.There was not that stately, regal bearing about him 172
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A RUSSIAN COROXATION. Nicliolas II. crowninsj the Czarina. (To face p. 172. Peaceful Personalities and Warriors Bold which his father possessed ; he was not so tall, andhis figure was squat and thick-set; but his face was,probably, stronger and more determined in characterthan that of the more amiable, and handsomer, oneof Alexander II. Mr. Heath, the English tutor tothe Royal children, told me while I was in Moscowthat his Imperial master and the Empress took thegreatest interest in the up-bringing of their children,and every evening the Czar and Czarina would bepresent at the bedside of their young ones whilethey said their prayers. And he informed me thatthe study in which he taught the boys was,practically, papered with my drawings from theGraphic of the dramatic incidents of the Russo-Turkish war. I reminded Lord Wolseley of his promise to methe following year when I was asked by my journalto join the relief expedition for the rescue of GeneralCharles Gordon, then besieged in Kha

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