Show r RAD GRANO DUKE E MIS DEAD P 1 i i Uncle of Emperor Nicholas Victim of oft ii iii 1 t i fL Pneumonia P Visited U t e d United U m t e eStates d i States in iii 1872 i I Nov Xo 14 Grand Duke Alexis of I 1 Russia lUissia an uncle of or Emperor Nicholas died in hi this city today toda of or pneumonia The grand duke had lived liv In Paris al nl almost i most continuously since his retirement from tho on of or supreme of ot L the navy which he held for tor years I Grand Duko Duke Alexis was born In j J I He lIe resigned the supreme control of or the marine In October 1905 1 following savage e ei criticism of or his administration of or the i I navy especially in the construction of ot t r Charges of or mismanagement and inefficiency against the marine depart department i i q r ment mont had b been en current ct for years and after the war var with Japan they increased tenfold Grand Duke Alexis himself did not escape personal attacks and scandal was so busy with his name that he was wa several times the subject of ot public dem demonstrations demonstrations demonstrations notably at the French the theatre theatre theatre atre in St Petersburg the latter part of or 1904 1901 The grand duke visited the United States in 1872 St Petersburg Nov 14 The news of the death in Paris of or the Grand Duke Alexis was received in St SI Petersburg this afternoon It has made little Im Ira Impression Impression on Russian society The grand duke after atter his retirement from supreme control of or the navy entirely out of ot public notice He has resided chiefly abroad and he visited St Petersburg I only for the family anniversaries at which all the members of or the imperial I family are expected to be present His role rolo In the disastrous d naval n val campaign with Japan has haI long Ions since been put into the background by the more important questions of ot social reorganization that have arisen since the war The usual court will be observed The imperial hunt now in progress in the vi vicinity vicInity of or Peterhof was abandoned abandon 1 today toda and the imperial theatres have been closed The death d ath of Alexis was announced to the duma during the election l of a president president president dent for that body bcd and at the suggestion of ot M of the house rose as a amark amark amark mark of respect |