Andreyev
LEONID, a Russian author, born at Oryol, Russia, 1871. He received his education at the gymnasium at Oryol and St. Petersburg University.
LEONID ANDREYEV He early turned his attention to literature and speedily achieved an international reputation. His writing was brilliant, but marked by the morbidity characteristic of the Russian school. Among his wellknown works may be mentioned "Red Laughter," "Life of Man," and "Anathema." He died suddenly in Finland in February, 1919, from excitement, caused by a Bolshevist raid in the vicinity of his residence.
ANDROMACHE (an-drom'ak-ē), a daughter of Ætion, King of Thebes in Cilicia, and wife of Hector. After the conquest of Troy she became the prize of Pyrrhus, son of Achilles. Euripides has made her the chief character of a tragedy.
King of Ethiopia and Cassiope. It was sical mythology a daughter of Cepheus, by order of Jupiter Ammon, and then ex- fabled that she was chained to a rock sical mythology a daughter of Cepheus, King of of Ethiopia and Cassiope. It was her death she was changed into the con- released, and afterward married her. On by order of Jupiter Ammon, and then exposed to the attacks of a monster. Perseus released, and afterward married her. On her death she was changed into the constellation which bears her name. fully supposed In astronomy, a constellation, fancichained. It is in the northern hemisphere, sed to resemble a woman and is surrounded by Cassiopeia, Lacerta, boundary line between it and Pegasus.
There is in the girdle of Andromeda a It contains the bright stars Allmach and Mirach, and Alpherat t is on the 21, eye, and continually mistaken by the fine elliptic nebula visible to the naked uninitiated for a comet. On Sept. 21, fine elliptic nebula visible to the naked eye, and continually mistaken by the uninitiated for a comet. On Sept. 21, 1898, the astronomers of the Pulkowa Observatory in Russia announced that cating that its nucleus is composed of surrounding it. stars instead of gas, like the matter surrounding it.
In botany, a genus of plants belong- A species (the A. polifolia, or marsh an- A species (the A. polifolia, or marsh anrose-colored drooping flowers. Its shoots poison sheep, as do those of the A. rose-colored drooping flowers. Its shoots poison sheep, as do those of the A. mariana, which grows in America; and similar effect upon goats. nenus. a ANDRONICUS I. (Comnenus), Byzantine emperor, the son of Isaac Comthe Turks, in 1141 was for some time a
In his youth he served against prisoner, and was afterward appointed to a military command in Cilicia, but was unsuccessful. Having engaged in a treasonable correspondence with the King of Hungary, he was thrown into prison by his cousin, the Emperor Manuel; but after 12 years he succeeded in making his escape, and reached Kiev, the residence of Prince Jaroslav. He regained the favor of his cousin by persuading Jaroslav to join him in the invasion of Hungary, but soon incurred his displeas- Jaroslav to join him in the invasion of ng ure again, and was sent in honorable banishment to Cilicia. After a pilgrimage easto Jerusalem, and his scandalous seduction ishment to Cilicia. After a pilgrimage of Theodora, the widow of Baldwin, King of Jerusalem, he settled among the Turks in Asia Minor, with a band of outlaws, but at length made his peace with the 1182, he was recalled to become, first guardian, then colleague, of the young Emperor Alexius II. Soon after, he guardian, then colleague, of the young 1182, he was recalled to become, first caused the Empress mother to be strangled, and afterward Alexius himself.
His reign, though short, restored prosperity to the provinces; but tyranny and murder were its characteristics in the capital. Isaac Angelus, one of his relatives, having fled to the Church of St. on the throne, while Andronicus, now Sophia for sanctuary, a crowd gathered, and a sudden insurrection placed Isaac infuriated populace on Sept. 12, 1185. 73 years of age, was put to death by the pelago, the most northern of the Cycla-