had experienced, in his own person, all the burden of despotism ere he ascended Russia's despotic throne.The French Revolution was now in progress, color schemes windows the crushed people of that kingdom endeavoring to throw off the yoke of intolerable oppression.ASSASSINATION OF PAUL AND ACCESSION OF ALEXANDER.The Austro Russian army spread over the whole plain color schemes windows below.Neither the Winter palace, nor the Summer palace, nor the palace of Anitschkoff, nor the Marble palace, nor the Hermitage, whose fairy like gorgeousness amazed all beholders, nor a crowd of other royal residences, too numerous to mention, and nearly all world renowned, were deemed worthy of the residence of the new monarch.In the storm of Ismael, forty thousand men, color schemes windows women and, children fell in indiscriminate massacre at his command.It was expert only at the use of the bayonet.When any one was admitted to an audience with the tzar, color schemes windows it was necessary for him to fall upon his knees so suddenly and heavily that his bones would ring upon the floor like the butt of a musket.Suwarrow, deprived of further command, and overwhelmed with disgrace, retired to one of his rural retreats where he soon died of chagrin.Twelve Polish gentlemen were condemned, for being wanting in respect to his majesty, to color schemes windows have their noses and ears cut off, and were then sent to perpetual Siberian exile.Paul I.France had also color schemes windows ten thousand Russian prisoners.
