3-071-236 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Funeral of the Emperor of Russia: removal of the body to the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, [St Petersburg], 1881. 'The removal of the late Emperor's body, on the 19th March, from the Winter Palace to the Church of Sts. Peter and Paul, in the Citadel, on the opposite bank of the Neva, was attended with great funereal pomp...First, at the head of it rode a master of the ceremonies, followed by the private escort of the Emperor; the mounted drummers and trumpeter of the Horse Guards...a squadron of his Majesty's Hussars of the Guard, four companies of the Guard Regiment of Pavlovsk...Chasseurs of the Guard all in full-dress uniform and deep mourning...forty liveried footmen, marching four abreast...kitchen-men, likewise in fours...the great black and white silk standards with the Imperial arms...the mourning standard of black silk...the Mayor of St. Petersburg...representatives of various zemstvos or provincial assemblies, of the nobility of the capital and of the country...The thirteenth section brought up a taper-carrying multitude of ecclesiastical persons, including...the father confessor of the deceased Emperor; and now at last appeared the gorgeously gilt funeral car, drawn by eight horses'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.