THE GRAND DUKE SERGIUS

Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1384, 20 February 1905, Page 2

THE GRAND DUKE SERGIUS

Tko Grand Duke Sergius, who was 49 years old at the time of his death, was one of the three uncles of Czar Nicholas, who have divided between themselveL the ohiof administrative powers of the Empire. The Grana Duke Vladimir, the eldestfarvivmg son of Alexander 11., is a permanent Commander-In-Chief of the armv Military Governor of Moscow. As almost absolute ruler of the second city inEnssia. Sergius exercised great influence in the councils of the Empire, and ho had strengthened his position (,by marrying an eddor sister of the Czarina, f Like Grand Dukes, ho was stroDgly opposed to 1 i-I movement in Euseia, and did his best to crush all efforts to gain freedom of speech or constitutional liberty. 1 [He was a violent Anglophobe, and wi 1 : credited with a largo share of the responsibihty for tho hostile attitude assumed by Eussia towards England in T? n n “ E “ tlo -S w -/ th neutral shipping and the Dogger Bank outrage. Ho notoriously corrupt, and our readers flaay remember that a low months ago thJlis- } covery thpt he had appropriated a very 1 forgo gift donated by a wealthy Moscow manufacturer in the army, caused a great outcry in Russia. When the agitatiug* for reform oame to a climax in the recent strikog and riots in St. Petersburg and Mosoow, Sergius is roported to have resigned his position aB Governor of Moscow as a protest ajaiDst tho liberal poliov4of the new Mmwtk> c f o r the Interior. Apnar. ently tho violent opposition of the Grani Dukes to all schemes of reform has con. firmed the Czar in 'hi« Heeisinn Vitsin the status qu'ingrPut . ™®- n ” have taken has ide + ' popular mind wi ll \ —- tyranny, and the itrt*., .*»•*, . \ ' probably only an carneey JJ" 'c episodes that may speodilje F V Grand Duke Sergius woslUßi \ \ June, .1884, to Prinoosotlasf \ Hesso-Darmstadt. /