Word: czarevich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...