Czar in her stead!" said the Officer, rushing in to tell Hordt; to whom it was as news of resurrection from the dead.

"Evening of same day, an Aide-de-Camp of the new Czar came to announce my liberty; equipage waiting to take me at once to his Russian Majesty.

Asked him to defer it till the following day--so agitated was I." And indeed the Czar, busy taking acclamations, oaths of fealty, riding about among his Troops by torchlight, could have made little of me that evening.

[Hermann, _Geschichte des Russischen Staats,_ v.

241.] "Ultimately, my presentation was deferred till Sunday" January 10th, "that it might be done with proper splendor, all the Nobility being then usually assembled about his Majesty." "JANUARY 10th, Waited, amid crowds of Nobility, in the Gallery, accordingly.