Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rasputin. When a guest broached to the Grand Duke Alexander the subject of the notorious "Black Monk" called Rasputin, or the "Debauchee," he recoiled with a slight gesture of disgust. Since His Imperial Highness' wife is a sister-in-law of the assassinated Tsaritsa Alexandra, who was the chief...
"They called him a monk but he was no holy man. He was a peasant-so rough and dirty-and so he was spoiled. He wanted all he could get, and so there was much intrigue. But what were called his 'orgies' were always far away from the...
Comfortable Romanovs. Asked how many of the Imperial Family are safely out of Russia and in comfortable circumstances, the Grand Duke Alexander exclaimed: "Comfortable! We are none of us comfortable! But I understand you-perhaps there are 30 of us who are what you call 'in comfortable circumstances.'...
Nicholas & Cyril. Though the Grand Duke Alexander's words of last week were significant and prompt to the minute, His Imperial Highness naturally did not attempt to sketch the full background of the feuds between Nicholas and Cyril, which Death seemed about to end last week.
While the right of consanguinity is all on the side of Grand Duke Cyril, he has lost the allegiance of thousands of Russian emigres who are satisfied: 1) that Cyril intrigued with revolutionaries against Nicholas II, and was well content when the Tsar was sent to Siberia (where he was...