Courtesy of Illustrated London News 



"FAREWELL ! A LOXG FAREWELL TO ALL MY GREATNESS !" 



Closely guarded, Nicholas Romanoff, the ex-Emperor of Russia, is seen seated on the 

 stump of a tree felled by his own hands. Before his removal to Siberia the dethroned 

 monarch, surrounded by his wife and children, resided comfortably, under military observa- 

 tion, in the palace of Tsarskoe Selo. A Paris correspondent writes : "At meals with his 

 children, or some specially invited guest, Nicholas is always in pleasant humor and never 

 makes the slightest allusion to his downfall." To one of his associates in captivity, however, 

 he is said to have observed, "I am hardly less free now than formerly, for have I not been 

 a prisoner all my life?" 



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