Nicholas and Alexandra Read Free

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    The Grand Tour                                                                       N. Teliatnikow
    Alix before her first ball
    Nicholas II and the Prince of Wales
    Alexandra and her daughters                       Beinecke Library, Yale University
    The Standart                                               Beinecke Library, Yale University
    Pierre Gilliard and Alexis                             Beinecke Library, Yale University
    Nicholas and Alexandra aboard the Standart
    Beinecke Library, Yale University Picknicking on the coast of Finland             Beinecke Library, Yale University
    Derevenko and Alexis                                   Beinecke Library, Yale University
    The Tsar                                                       Beinecke Library, Yale University
    The Empress                                                 Beinecke Library, Yale University
    Nicholas with his officers                             Beinecke Library, Yale University
    Nicholas with Alexis                                     Beinecke Library, Yale University
    Alexandra in her mauve boudoir                 Beinecke Library, Yale University
    Alexandra with Alexis                                   Beinecke Library, Yale University
    Ngomy and Alexis                                     Beinecke Library, Yale University
    Derevenko and Alexis                                   Beinecke Library, Yale University
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    Livadia: Pierre Gilliard, Olga, Tatiana     Beinecke Library, Yale University
    At Spala: Alexandra                                 Beinecke Library, Yale University
    After Spala: Alexis                                   Beinecke Library, Yale University
    Gregory Rasputin                                                                           Culver
    Nicholas and Alexis during the war                 Underwood & Underwood
    In a hospital: Olga, Tatiana, Alexandra
    Beinecke Library, Yale University
    The Tsar with Grand Duke Nicholas                                         Combine
    Anastasia
    Marie, Tatiana, Olga                                 Beinecke Library, Yale University
    Nicholas, Alexis, Tatiana                                           Radio Times Hidton
    The Empress                                           Beinecke Library, Yale University
    Imprisoned at Tsarskoe Selo                                             N. Teliatnikow
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    Cast of Characters

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    COUNT VLADIMIR FREDERICKS Minister of the Imperial Court COUNT PAUL BENCKENDORFF Grand Marshal of the Imperial Court, Fredericks' subordinate DR. EUGENE BOTKIN Court physician. Botkin attended primarily the Empress Alexandra DR. FEDOROV A doctor who cared for the Tsarevich Alexis DR. VLADIMIR DEREVENKO A doctor permanently assigned to the Tsarevich Alexis FIERRE GILLIARD Swiss tutor of the Tsarevich Alexis ANNA VYRUBOVA The Empress Alexandra's closest friend and confidante DEREVENKO
    A sailor assigned to watch the Tsarevich Alexis night and day. No relation to Dr. Derevenko
    MATHILDE KSCHESSINSKA
    Ballerina. Mistress of Nicholas II before his marriage
    GREGORY RASPUTIN
    A Siberian peasant
    ALEXANDER KERENSKY
    Prime Minister of the Provisional Government, 1917
    Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin)
    First leader of the Soviet State
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    PART ONE
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    NOTE
    The titles emperor and tsar, and empress and tsaritsa, are all correct and are used interchangeably in this book, emperor was a higher rank, first taken by Peter the Great, but Nicholas II, a Slavophile, preferred the older, more Russian title, tsar.
    Dates in Russian history can be