. In joyful Russia. ould not become hopelessly mixedwhen I came to try to assort them and place them in orderin my memory. This was at the time; but distance some-times has a clarifying effect, and, as I look back, the dif-ferent scenes in the brilliant spectacle arrange themselvesin as orderly array as the succession of views presented in awell-painted panorama. I see their relations to each otherand to the whole; and I wonder at the ingenuity, the skill,and the infinite industry and painstaking of the personsto whom was intrusted the weaving of this perplexingfabric. One of its most interest
. In joyful Russia. ould not become hopelessly mixedwhen I came to try to assort them and place them in orderin my memory. This was at the time; but distance some-times has a clarifying effect, and, as I look back, the dif-ferent scenes in the brilliant spectacle arrange themselvesin as orderly array as the succession of views presented in awell-painted panorama. I see their relations to each otherand to the whole; and I wonder at the ingenuity, the skill,and the infinite industry and painstaking of the personsto whom was intrusted the weaving of this perplexingfabric. One of its most interesting features—^from thestandpoint of the populace—was the proclamation of thecoronation. This was attended with very intricate detail,and by a body of officials arrayed in garments as brightand glowing as those of any stage king, and of far greatervalue. This ceremony was under the direction of a fullgeneral, who was assisted by two aide-de-camp generals,two aide-de-camp lieutenant-generals, two Grand Masters 106. PROCLAIMING THE CORONATION. 107 of the Ceremonies of the Coronation, two Imperial Heraldsat Arms, four Masters of Ceremonies, and two Secretariesof the Senate. The military escort consisted of four squad-rons of cavalry: two from the Chevalier Guards and twofrom the regiment of the Gardes a Cheval, with a completecorps of drummers and trumpeters. The proclamation wasto be repeated on three days—the three immediately pre-ceding the coronation—i. e., the 11th, 12th, and 13th ofMay, according to the Eussian calendar, corresponding tothe 23d, 24th, and 25th of ours. The proclamation, whichwas first read in the Senate building within the KJremlin,is as follows: Our Most August, Most High and Puissant Sover-eign, the Emperor Mcholas Alexandrovieh, having as-cended the hereditary throne of the Empire of Eussia, andof the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Fin-land, which are inseparable therefrom, has deigned toorder, after the example of the most pious sovereig
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