Travelogues; . LOOKING TOWARD THE KHODYNSKY POLK whither they retire after their ceremony at the Nicholas did not return thither after his coronation in1896. We know full well why he holds and will ever holdthis place in horror, for its windows command the fatal fieldcalled the Khodynsky Pole, scene of that awful tragedy ofthe coronation crush, when thousands of helpless peasantscrowded themselves to death or mutilation in their eager-ness to taste the bounty of the Tsar, and to receive imperialsouvenirs. No one will everknow just how it came aboutor just what hundred
Travelogues; . LOOKING TOWARD THE KHODYNSKY POLK whither they retire after their ceremony at the Nicholas did not return thither after his coronation in1896. We know full well why he holds and will ever holdthis place in horror, for its windows command the fatal fieldcalled the Khodynsky Pole, scene of that awful tragedy ofthe coronation crush, when thousands of helpless peasantscrowded themselves to death or mutilation in their eager-ness to taste the bounty of the Tsar, and to receive imperialsouvenirs. No one will everknow just how it came aboutor just what hundred thou-sand men, women,and children of thepoorer class weregathered togetherhere, peasant pil-grims from manyprovinces, most ofthat multitude hav-ing slept upon thefield that they might12. SCENE OF THE CORONATION CRUSH 178 MOSCOW be at hand for the promised free distribution of food, drink,and coronation-cups. At daybreak the still poorer populaceof Moscow rolled its unruly tide of festive misery out from theback streets and alleys of the industrial quarters, all surgingtoward a common center, around which were already masseda quarter of a million people. Tighter and tighter grew thepress, until those acres of serried humanity began to swayand roll like an awakened sea under the stress of sudden
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