REVOLUTIONS in Russia have at al! times been as common as blackberries in autumn. From Peter the Great who, himself the choice of a revolution, ascended the uneasy throne in 1689, till Alexander IL who became Czar in 1855, each succeeding Czar owed his crown to revolutions, in most cases bloody. Even Peter the Great, mighty 'a ign as he was, was not uble to altogether escape the national blight, and we find him at the summit of hie power called on to suppress a movement, herded tt was clarined by his only son Alexis, who in consequence died in prison. When there fore by last mail we had detailed accounts of a regularly organised revolution being imminent in Russia
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