Word: czarevitch
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...Europe from Britain's Queen Victoria. Of her four sons only the youngest, Leopold, was a bleeder, died at 31. But two of Victoria's daughters, Alice and Beatrice, carried the disease to their German offspring. Through one of Alice's daughters, it passed to the Czarevitch Alexis (murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918); through Beatrice's daughter to sons of Spain's Alfonso XIII...
...strutted, turned its head, and folded and unfolded its fanlike emerald tail. The last Fabergé egg to be presented to the Czarina (in 1916) was prophetically grim: made of blackened steel and poised on four bits of shrapnel, it contained only a miniature painting of the Czar and Czarevitch Alexis with staff generals on the Eastern front. Two years later the imperial family was to be shot to death in a cellar at Ekaterinburg, and in four years Fabergé himself, possibly the last of the great luxury craftsmen, was to die in exile in Lausanne...
Meanwhile Lenin and Trotzky were looking at the same poster, their handiwork, in the dining room of the ex-little father, Nicholas. And Lenin had his feet on the table where Princess Olga once spilled her soup, and Trotzky was tapping with his knee the spot where the Czarevitch had once stuck a cud of Wrigleyitch...