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Show LIVED IN MIRROR PALACE. prodigal Kusslan Who Squandered a Vast Fortune Is Sent to Iusan" Asy'-d, From Tomsk coi..V u tous history ofamodernNarclsus. Ills name Is Vladimir Vlad-imir Ytvdoklmoff, the son of one of the Tlchett merchants In Ilusila. After epcndlrg millions of rubles In all sorta of foolish ways he retired to Tomsk with a considerable fortune In bis hand, lie bought a wooded hill In tho neighborhood neighbor-hood and on tho lummlt of It built a glass palace. One of the largest of tho rooms Is a mirror hall, In which wall, roof and floor are formed only of mirrors, mir-rors, In the middle of this hall Ycvdok-Imoff Ycvdok-Imoff had a throne erected which revolved re-volved on a pivot like a piano stool. Hero he jwoull sit for hours, turning backward and forward and admlrlr? hlmtelf In the mirrors. Gorgeous rot i were In a neighboring room, and In t course of tho day he would chanRo 1 s garments a score of times. His t.!-mlratlon t.!-mlratlon of himself In the mirrors was sometimes varied by elabroate ba , qucts, to which only women wero Invited, In-vited, and which are said to have resembled re-sembled tho Thraclan mysteries. They were attired as flacchantes and he presided, pre-sided, crowned with roses. In Ave yea. ho squandered 7.000.000 rubles and la now In an asylum for the Insane. |
