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...LIFE AND TRAGEDY OF ALEXANDRA FEODOROVNA EMPRESS OF RUSSIA-A Biography- Baroness Sophie Buxhoeveden- Longmans Green...
Most glittering and ceremonious of festivals was the last Russian coronation, May, 1896. Each in her gilded coach, two empresses followed in slow procession, the first, Dowager Empress Marie, to be greeted with huzzahs of adoration; and the second, Alexandra, with a sudden silence, variously interpreted. Baroness Buxhoeveden, friend and lady-in-waiting to the last empress, says the crowds were struck dumb with holy awe. But Princess Radziwill, member of the St. Petersburg aristocracy Alexandra failed to please, calls the dumbness "a solemn, ominous silence . . . majestic absence of emotion on the part of the multitude...
...Baroness Buxhoeveden was one of the few faithfuls who followed the royal family into their dreary Siberian exile, herself narrowly escaping their gruesome fate. She was constant companion to the grand duchess, but has not recognized the authenticity of the young woman who last year claimed to be Anastasia, escaped...
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