Letters from the Kaiser to the Czar Author:William Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: r— ' , V. ,., ,:, i . "".' "."' ..." v.t'1 /" I .'.V'''.' "J f 'j'"' 7" ", 1 ' J1. ; ' " j." ,'r'/.' L' .' . / . l J-- C-t. 'l ' ''a'','' ''1'... more »iwc,V'-li- U-t !/aanduu: DEAREST KICKY FROM HIS AFFECTIONATE FRIEND WILLY The cousinly familiarity between the Kaiser and the Czar is shown by letter No. XLVI in which the Kaiser takes a fling at the Russian anarchists that he later encouraged. vite subjects, they were probably foreigners from Geneva. For the great bulk of your people still place their faith in their "Vaterchen" the Czar and worship his hallowed person. I have gained this conviction from my close observation of the different phases of the movement in Russia as far as I was able from the news coming directly from there and by the opinions expressed by observers, or sometimes Russians, in the European Press. The Russian movement is, as you may well imagine, uppermost in all conversations and correspondence not only in Russia but also without. The whole European Press is flooded with articles about Russia, their opinions depending on the standpoint of the Party they belong to. In this manner a— so to say—European point of view has emanated, which seems fairly correct rendering of the public opinion of our Continent. Now I thought that it might perhaps be of some interest to you—in your solitude at Tsarske—to have an idea of this European opinion, and to hear how the events in your country are judged by what one sometimes calls the "civilized World" in general. I shall therefore in the following lines try to draw a little sketch for you of the "reflected Russian picture" as seen from outside. Of course as the People outside your country are not initiated to the details of the intricate questions at issue in Russia they often combine or infer fro...« less