"WANTED AN HEIR."

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1927, 9 December 1913, Page 9

"WANTED AN HEIR."

THE FATE OF THE ROMANOFF DYNASTY. ' A" correspondent of "Free Russia," writing on the subject of tho Russian Imperial family, savs:— "Wanted, an heir! Wanted to save tho dynasty. Tho young Alexis, suffering from an incurable disease —tuberculosis of the bones, it is said—can only be kept alive, tho doctors say. for a few months longer. Tho Tsar himself has become a victim of tits of melancholy. His consort, the unfortunate Tsarina, is still suffering acutely from a complete nervous breakdown. The (|iiestiou therefore arises, Who will bo tho heir to Nicholas the Second, or will ho be the last of the autoerals of Russia? Tho daughters of Nicholas cannot ascend the throne, because Paul I, who hated bis august mother. Catherine tlio Great, nindo a law by which it became impossible for a woman to reign in Russia. Therefore, in the case of the deinis-! of Nicholas If, the throne should fall to bis brother Michael. But this is hardly possible, since be has renounced all bis rights, and has married morganaticallv a Russian lady with whom he lives very happily far from court intrigues." The writer goes on to discuss the Grand Dukes, and finds insuperable objections to all of them.

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