Travelogues; . THE IMPERIAL EQUIPAGE the backs of the white horses. Meantime we seize the goldenmoments to make a motion-record of the passing of an Em-peror, two Empresses, and an Imperial escort. The Imperial party then moves alternately up and downthe avenues bounded by the spacious blocks of troops, everybattalion, squadron, or battery shouting or singing its wordsof loyalty and homage to the Tsar. Magnificent is a poorword with which to qualify the scene. The long, zigzagcourse at last concluded, the Emperor, followed by his stafT, 96 ST PETERSBURG rides to the front of the Imperial box.
Travelogues; . THE IMPERIAL EQUIPAGE the backs of the white horses. Meantime we seize the goldenmoments to make a motion-record of the passing of an Em-peror, two Empresses, and an Imperial escort. The Imperial party then moves alternately up and downthe avenues bounded by the spacious blocks of troops, everybattalion, squadron, or battery shouting or singing its wordsof loyalty and homage to the Tsar. Magnificent is a poorword with which to qualify the scene. The long, zigzagcourse at last concluded, the Emperor, followed by his stafT, 96 ST PETERSBURG rides to the front of the Imperial box. There — still in thesaddle, like a soldier — he will review his troops; and theEmpresses are swept by us, their carriage almost running usdown as it swings round to reach the entrance to the loge. • The Imperial women being now safely ensconced in thegreen tent, the review commences. Faithful Cossacks areon guard at the entrance ; hundreds of secret agents are pre-. AWAITING THE EMPRESSES sumably at hand, on the qui vive for Nihilists. Yet I aminclined to question the thoroughness of the measures takenfor the protection of the Imperial family. Had I been aNihilist, my camera a bomb, there were a dozen occasionswhen it could have oeen launched with fatal effect. But Idoubt also the necessity, even, for the actual that very season when some American papers pictured the ST. PETERSBURG 97
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