Word: russias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Letters of Dr. Samuel Johnson, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, and Lord Macaulay and to this interesting collection of autographs. Two other letters of historical significance is one of William of Prussia who later became the Emperor William the First of Germany and one of Catherine the Great of Russia. The note of the former is amusing in its content, asking that special provision may be made by the addressee to allow the writer's sister and aunt who are under quarantine for scarlet fever to attend a ball...
Terrible Things! Ensconced at the Ritz, last week, Grand Duke Alexander said, in fluent but slightly stilted English: "A proletarian visited me this morning. Yes, a proletarian-the clothes very rough and dirty! He had just returned from Russia. He told me terrible things! . . . But I look-the Imperial Family looks-for a change...
...this will come. I think it must come through Spirituality, through the awakening of all Russians to universal oneness with the Spirit Supreme. . . . That is my doctrine, the subject of my books and lectures. . . When that awakening has taken place Russia will have found herself. Then there may be a Head-some one man above others (gesturing in the air)-but perhaps very different from the Tsar. What will it matter, then...
...What is Cyril doing? He is not exactly doing-he is making propaganda. Only little pamphlets! Books are impossible-he can not get them into Russia. . . . We are good friends. Very often I go to see him and explain my ideas. He does not go so far toward Spirituality as I do-but more or less. He is more anxious to make propaganda and tell the people he is Tsar...
Comfortable Romanovs. Asked how many of the Imperial Family are safely out of Russia and in comfortable circumstances, the Grand Duke Alexander exclaimed: "Comfortable! We are none of us comfortable! But I understand you-perhaps there are 30 of us who are what you call 'in comfortable circumstances.' There is my wife and I have six children.* Perhaps there are a few more than 30 of the Imperial Family who have enough to buy the few things we want. I write books, and now I lecture. I teach not a religion but Spirituality that is in all religions...