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Show RIVALS PETER THE GREAT. Prince Khllkoff Does to England to Learn, But Winds Up ai Engineer En-gineer in United States. Prtnco Khllkoff, whom the czar has made 0110 ot the secretaries ot state, Is ;he head of an ancient house and in youth was regarded by his family as a crank and a dangerous one to boat He had to undertake the management of tho family estates at about the time that tho serfs were being emancipated and his magnanimity toward his underlings under-lings did not please the rest of his family, fam-ily, so youne Khllkoff went on a Dllnrlm- age. Ho thought It would bo good to follow tho example of Peter tho Great and go to England to learn. Ho went to Birkenhead and worked there as an ordinary or-dinary artisan. News ot great railway developments In America called him hero and ho cacao to the United States and worked right through the fitting and englne-bulldlng shops and learned to drlvo an engine. He returned home to perform a similar office at the time that the railways ot Russia were beginning be-ginning to boom. Employed first as an engineer, he was promoted to tho control con-trol of locomotive works, was made head of a lino and, pushing his way step by step, proved himself the Ideal man for the poet of minister of ways of communication. |