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Title: Honeymooning in Russia
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Wood, Ruth Kedzie
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Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Tsarevitch Alexis A Palace of Treasure and Tragedy &% tion of only those who paid a special tax. Thesefavoured ones received a brass medal as a receipt, andsome of these relics we saw in the museum. He slewthousands of his subjects, and tortured many thousandsmore, breaking them on a wheel, or hanging them up todie with a hook about a rib. And yet, when he saw fellow-beings struggling in the Neva and about to drown, hethrew himself into the cold waters, thereby contractingan illness from which he died. A monstrous problem! Peter the Great — Scoundrel, someone called him, youremember, said Philip, as we looked at a ring set withthe Tsars portrait beneath a pink diamond. Througha rosy crystal most historians have seen him and por-trayed his life accordingly. It is a question whether hischief claim to fame does not lie in the fact that he wasinordinately persevering, and extravagantly vain. Un-biassed study of his story does not disclose him as a phi-lanthropist seeking only his co

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