![]() ![]() Hoixter to the coachman as he stepped down from the carriage at Linden Ledge. He breathed his last not two hours after he was struck.įrom Sarah Wyman, Madeline, chapter 24, serialized in The Hawaiian Monthly (December 1884): Dvorjetsky, who was also wounded, drove the Czar in his sledge to the Winter palace. The Emperor stepped down from the carriage, and at that moment a second bomb was cast, which exploded at his feet, the fragments breaking both his legs and penetrating his abdomen. The prefect of police, Colonel Dvorjetsky, who followed behind in a sledge, leaped out and seized the assassin, who drew and fired a revolver. She was as upright as one of her own life-guards, and looked like the great Commander-in-chief of her country.įrom the entry for Russia, in Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1881 (1882): As she rose and stepped down from the carriage, although she is so short and-well, a little fat-I was literally taken aback by the regal movement. A Google Books search of books published during the second half of the nineteenth century finds five matches for "stepped down from the carriage." From " Two Days at Windsor or The Princess and the Sultan," in The Monthly Packet (August 1867):Īgain, punctual to a moment, the Royal carriage drew up, and there sat the Queen. ![]()
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