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Despite the official secrecy that cloaked the deed, an archive of accounts by both participants and eyewitnesses survived. Nicholas and his wife Alexandra had from adolescence to the last hours of their lives kept diaries. The intimate story of their marriage, its intense emotional pitch and devastating political consequences, is told largely in their own voices. The regime that took their lives also believed in recording the minutia of its terror. Glasnost gave Radzinsky access to information that had long been locked away. Radzinsky discovered a folder headed "File on the Family of Former Tsar Nicholas the Second...
...Everybody is talking about it," said C. Alexandra Choe, a University of Pennsylvania student in town for the convention...
...year after unearthing nine skeletons in Siberia, scientists identified the remains of Russia's last Czar, Nicholas II, and his wife Alexandra, who were executed 74 years ago by a Bolshevik firing squad. A third skeleton was identified as that of the royal family's doctor, and the other six bodies, thought to be some of the monarchs' children and servants, will be identified by the end of the month...
...words been so, well, unwordy as those for Atlas, a new opera by the minimalist composer- singer-dancer MEREDITH MONK that was performed last week in Brooklyn. La la la and Hay yo, Hay yo are just two of the "arias" in this tale of an ! explorer named Alexandra (Monk), who travels to the roof of the world with a handful of intrepid companions and finds both adventure and, in the end, herself. An offbeat but sophisticated hybrid of simple chord changes, birdlike ululations, soaring vocalises and stylized dances, Atlas is the apotheosis of Monk's decades-long quest...
...Alexandra L. Barcus, Lowell House senior tutor, said last week that there were some factual inaccuracies with the police report...