The young Czar was a youth of sixteen, personally unknown, but recommended by the virtues of his father, a high dignitary of the Greek Church. This family had long been distinguished for brilliant public service, exalted patriotism and personal integrity. Through the female branch, they were connected with the royal line of Rurik.
Before he assumed the crown young Michael bound himself by the most solemn oaths to protect the Greek Church, to seek no revenge for injuries suffered by his family in the past, to change none of the old laws and to make no new ones, to declared neither war nor peace, to decide upon nothing without the advice of his Council of State, to surrender his own estates and incorporate them with the crown lands.
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From General Nelson A. Miles
Thrilling Stories of The Russian-Japanese War, 1904
