Word: alexandra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, by Robert K. Massie. The decline and fall of the Romanov dynasty is told through the personal tragedy of the last, likable heads of the Russian ruling family...
...identities and incidentally raise money for the Venetian artisans still suffering the effects of last November's widespread floods. When the masks came off at 1:30 a.m., the revelers turned out to include: Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, Aristotle Onassis, Gian Carlo Menotti, Paul Getty, Princess Alexandra of Greece, three Princesses Ruspoli, Rose Kennedy, Clare Boothe Luce, Sonny and Marylou Whitney, who wore rhinestones in honor of her recent $780,000 jewel theft, and Richard and Elizabeth Burton, who had dispatched a plane first to Sardinia and then to Rome to fetch the proper dress for the ball...
...Nicholas and Alexandra, Massie...
NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, by Robert K. Massie. The events that led to the Kerensky revolution and the Bolshevik coup d'etat are told in terms of the two royal Romanovs, seen as neither ogres nor icons, but as tragic simpletons...
NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA, by Robert K. Massie. In telling the tragic story of Czar Nicholas II and his wife, the last of the Romanov dynasty, Author Massie stresses the crucial role of Rasputin in discrediting the imperial family in the people's eyes...