Show czar as composer of music for the last IS 18 months the czar has been virtually a prisoner in one of his own palaces and in the intervals of state work he has solaced himself with ith composing music and writing verse his poetry is ous and carefully polished and his music is melancholy and inspired by a spirit of fatalism some three years ago some of the czar czars s poems were published under the pseudonym of olat olaf with music by his cousin the grand duke D dassia aisla but he has himself set sonie some of his verses to music with a consider able amount of taste and a real knowl know edge of harmony nicholas II 11 has a fine collection of violins of which he be Is very proud |