A diary in the East : during the tour of the Prince and Princess of Wales . e Grand Duke Constantine. It was built bythe late Empress, and given to her sons, and it waswon by the eldest in a throw of dice ; but the GrandDuke does not live there. There are charmin- rooms,gardens, and views. The Swiss intendant receivedthe Prince and Princess, who were led through therooms by Count Stenbock. They inspected withinterest the registry of visitors, in which were thenames of many officers who came here after the peacein 1856. From Orianda the party proceeded toAlupka, the Palace of Prince Woronzow. I
A diary in the East : during the tour of the Prince and Princess of Wales . e Grand Duke Constantine. It was built bythe late Empress, and given to her sons, and it waswon by the eldest in a throw of dice ; but the GrandDuke does not live there. There are charmin- rooms,gardens, and views. The Swiss intendant receivedthe Prince and Princess, who were led through therooms by Count Stenbock. They inspected withinterest the registry of visitors, in which were thenames of many officers who came here after the peacein 1856. From Orianda the party proceeded toAlupka, the Palace of Prince Woronzow. It is notpossible to give an idea of the charm of thesepeaceful nooks, where Heaven has provided for theRussian great absolute repose and far niente. TheWoronzow family have cast their shield over a sec-tion of these once powerful and now helpless people,the Krim Tartars. Inside the walls of their granddomain there is a Tartar village, with its new deco- 0 0 2 564 ALUPKA. [chap. rated mosque and flat-roofed houses; and it waspleasant to see the women and girls, with their. golden diadems and frontlets of coins, gathered onthe house-tops to greet the Prince and Princess ofWales. At the party sat down to a hot lunchin the noble dining saloon of the Palace, the honoursbeing done by Prince Troubetsko, in the absence ofPrince Woronzow. The Eoyal visitors returned to Livadia, andhaving exchanged telegrams with the Czar preparedto go on board the frigate. XX.] DEPARTURE FROM THE CRIMEA. 5G5 Sir A. Buchanan, in addition to the personalmessages of the Prince to the Emperor, forwardedan official despatch througli the Embassy to PrinceGortschakoff to express the high sense entertainedof the reception given to tlie Eoyal party. Theleave-taking at Alupka was a very pretty Kotzebue, Count Stenbock, GeneralJukovsky, Baron Osten Sacken, Mr. Hiterowa,Mr. Stevens, and the Mufti Kadi of the TartarGuard, bade their Eoyal Highnesses good-bye onthe shore, a little impromptu battery
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