Clara Barton: A Centenary Tribute to the World's Greatest Humanitarian / Founder of the American Red Cross Society, Author of the American Amendment to the International Red Cross Convention of Geneva, Founder of the National First Aid Association of America

by Charles Sumner Young

NICHOLAS II
The Czar of Russia
Oh, no, Miss Barton, not you.
The Czar.
The Czar is young and handsome, an educated, refined, kind-hearted gentleman. I know him. Clara Barton.

ALEXANDRA FEODOROWNA
The Czarina of Russia
The Czarina was the active head of the Red Cross, in the Russian famine of 1892. She and the Czar gave a special audience to Clara Barton, on the occasion of her visit to St. Petersburg, in 1902.

THE ROYALTY OF RUSSIA

MARIA FEODOROWNA
The Empress Dowager
née Princess Dagmar of Denmark
The personal friend of Clara Barton and who, with the Czar, presented her with a decoration. See page [327], decoration No. 23.

There is nothing vainer than the love of fame. Theophrastus.

Earth hath bubbles as the water has. Macbeth.

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing and for whom you care as little.