Word: czarevich
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...nasty and brutish. In 1918 the last Czar of Russia was a prisoner of the Ural Regional Soviet in the Siberian city of Ekaterinburg. With him were his German-born wife, the Czarina Alexandra; their four daughters, the Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Marie and Anastasia, and hemophiliac son, the Czarevich Alexis; the family doctor, Eugene Botkin; and three servants...
...handsome face with the jaunty beard and mustache was vaguely and sadly familiar. A cache of newly discovered photographs, handed down by a friend of one of the Czarina's ladies in waiting, includes one of Czar Nicholas II, canoeing with his son, Czarevich Alexis, and another of the Czar's two youngest daughters, the Grand Duchesses Maria and Anastasia. The specter of their Romanov majesties was also unexpectedly raised in London by Liberal Party Leader Jeremy Thorpe...
Died. Mathilda Kschessinska, 99, prima ballerina assoluta of the Russian Imperial Ballet at the turn of the century and mistress of the Czarevich before he became Nicholas 11; in Paris. Isadora Duncan described her as "more like a lovely bird or butterfly than a human being," and Nijinsky tore at his costume in a jealous rage when she upstaged him in a 1911 performance of Swan Lake. Though regarded as a national heroine in Czarist Russia, Ksches-smska's close association with the royal family-she later married Nicholas' cousin Andre and became Princess Ro-manovsky-Krassinsky-made...
...seen by Massie, the Romanovs' 300 years' rule was doomed by the Czarevich's hemophilia: it put the imperial pair in the oily hands of Rasputin, whose prayers they believed would heal their more than fragile son Alexis. Rasputin not only destroyed the morale of the aristocracy, he also made it impossible for Nicholas to heed sensible advice until it was too late. And he fatally fractured the image of the Czar in the mind of the masses. The imperial pair saw a calumniated saint in Rasputin; the people, in the words of a monarchist member...
...lashes for vagrancy, a strange thing happened. Out from Moscow rode Grand Duke Michael, Alexander's younger brother. He personally threatened the judge with a lashing of his own. But after talking privately and reverentially with Kuzmich, Michael relented and left. Other Romanovs visited the holy man: Czarevich Alexander, namesake of his uncle and soon to bear the imperial title, arrived and kissed Kuzmich's hand...