A friend of his sent in to Punch a comic sketch of the tsar travelling by railway, while he sent a decoy train in the opposite direction-which was blown up!
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann
A woman of immense wealth, and typically a woman of the world, the Princess spent six months of the year in Paris, where she was a well-known and much-liked figure in the most exclusive circles; she was clever and cultivated, a first-rate musician, and her reputation was spotless, although it was very seldom that she was accompanied by her husband, whose duties as Grand Chamberlain to the tsar kept him almost continuously in Russia.
"Fantômas"
Pierre Souvestre Marcel Allain
When the tsar bestowed the Cross of St. George on the city in recognition of its heroic defense, it was to this policeman, the only civilian who remained, that the Russian representative handed the badge of the famous order.
"Italy at War and the Allies in the West"
E. Alexander Powell