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Title: Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ...
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Fontenoy, marquise de, pseud
Subjects: Courts and courtiers
Publisher: Philadelphia, Hubbard Pub. Co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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isshown by the fact that within a few days of his accession to the throne he summarily deprived his uncle of his post of thePresident of the Council of the Empire, and also his officeof Lord Hieh Admiral of the Fleet. He likewise com-manded him to leave the capital and to take up his residencein quasi banishment at Ouanda, his magnificent palace nearYalta, in the Crimea. A few years prior to his death, Con-stantine was restored to favor, at the time of the marriage ofhis orranddauehter, the late Princess Alexandra of Greece, to the Emperors youngest brother, Paul. From that timeforth he resided In his palace at Pavlovsk, in the immediateneighborhood of St. Petersburg. It was Grand Duke Constantine who induced the Czar toissue a ukase alterine the riorhts of succession to the throne ;a trivial circumstance having caused him to remark how unfor-tunate it would be for Russia should Grand Duke Vladimir, 2§4 WITHIN ROYAL PALACES. the Czars brother, ever become the ruler of all the Russias.
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GRAND DUKE VLADIMIR. It appears that a discussion took place in one of the most fa-mous salons of the capital as to what would have occurred if THE IMPERIAL FAMILY OF RUSSIA. 285 none of the imperial party had escaped with their lives whenthe terrible railway accident at Borki happened. Prince Peterof Oldenburg-, who happened to be present and who untilrecently commanded the Corps dArmee of the ImperialGuard, immediately exclaimed: In that case I should atonce have assembled the troops under my command andcaused them to take an oath of allegiance to the Grand Duke Vladimir as nextin the line of suc-cession to thethrone. This re-mark made therounds of the va-rious clubs andsalons here, andfinally came to theears of the Em-peror. The latter,although fond ofhis brother Vladi-mir, cordially dis-likes and distruststhe latters wife,who is a GermanPrincess of thegrand ducal houseof Mecklenburg-Schwerin by birth, and who has retained her Lutheran creed in-stead of becoming a member of the Rus

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