. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across en exceptinghis own son, and the legitimate heir to the throne. The proceedings oftlie trial were published by Peter as a justification of his act. Peter II., the son of Alexis and grandson of the great Peter, diedsuddenly, at the age of fifteen; Peter III., grandchild of Peter the Greatthrough his daughter Anna, was the husband of the Empress Catherine II.;l)ut his reign was very short. His life with Catherine was not the hap-piest in the
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across en exceptinghis own son, and the legitimate heir to the throne. The proceedings oftlie trial were published by Peter as a justification of his act. Peter II., the son of Alexis and grandson of the great Peter, diedsuddenly, at the age of fifteen; Peter III., grandchild of Peter the Greatthrough his daughter Anna, was the husband of the Empress Catherine II.;l)ut his reign was very short. His life with Catherine was not the hap-piest in the world, and in less than eight months after he became Em-peror she usurped the throne, deposed her husband, and caused him to AN IMPERIAL MURDEK. 87 be strangled. Catlierine was a German princess, bnt declared herselfthoroughly Russian when she came to reside in the Empire. If history iscorrect, she made a better ruler than the man she put aside, but this canbe no justification of her means of attaining power. Her son, Paul I., followed the fate of his father in being assassinated,but it was not by her orders. She brought him up in complete ignorance. ASSASSINATION OF PKTER III. of public affairs, and compelled him to live away from the Imperial her death, in 1Y96, she kept him in retirement, although she hadhis sons taken to court and educated nnder her immediate like this was calculated to make him whimsical and revengeful,and when he became emperor he tried to undo every act of his motherand those about her. Pie disbanded her armies, made peace with thecountries with which she was at war, reversed her policy in everything,and became a most bitter tyrant towards his own people. He issued ab-surd orders, and at length his acts bordered on insanity. A conspiracy was formed among some of the noblemen, who repre- 88 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. seiited to his son Alexander that it was necessary to secure the abdicationof his father on
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