Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . curred 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-ce
Within royal palaces : a brilliant and charmingly written inner view of emperors, kings, queens, princes and princesses ... . curred 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 Russian orthodox at the bare idea of the Lutheran Princess be-comincr Czarina, and aware of the enormous influence which. GRAND DUCHESS VLADIMIR. 286 WITHIN ROYAL PALACES. his beautiful but ambitious and unscrupulous sister-in-law ex-ercises on her huge but somewhat stupid husband, theEmperor, after consulting with the Procurator-General of theHoly Synod, M. Pobiedonotsoff, issued an Imperial ukaseorderinof die succession to the Crown. to the termsof this decree, members of the Emperors family wedded toPrincesses who have failed to adopt the orthodox Russiancreed at the time of their marriage, are debarred from allrights of succession to the Throne. Not only the GrandDuke and Grand Duchess Vladimir with their children, butalso the Emperors third brother, Sergius, who is married toPrincess Elizabeth of Hesse-Darmstadt, were affected by theukase, which has oriven immense offence to the Grand DuchessVladimirs relatives and friends at Berlin. Vladimir is a vain,weak man,
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