Show where the cir lave 1 a dull dreary dingy place for any man to retire to especially la spring or autumn and to enhance its natural drawbacks the emperor moved by peculiar notions of his own has chosen the very worst suite of apartments in the palace to live in a range of small low rooms on the entresol the ceilings of which he has no dit faculty in touching with his hands the lack of air in these than once proved prejudicial to the health ot the empress during a spell 0 indisposition but abo would never listen to the advice ot the doctora to move away from her consort into more spacious apartments all the clouds that lower over the bouse of the Koma seem to gather and condense over the winter palace 0 which the czar baa a superstitious horror he never passes a night there even when residing in the palace he seems and feels considerably out of his element or the even tenor of his life 1 broken by balls official receptions to various institutions and other uncongenial occupations contemporary review |