Word: kurth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fagan was arraigned in Cambridge the same day the girls' mother, Barbara Kurth, held a press conference to make an emotional plea for a reunion with her daughters. "Not a day has gone by that I have not thought about whether they were safe and happy," said Kurth, who is remarried and has no other children. Police began their investigation last September when an anonymous tipster reported Fagan's whereabouts. Kurth has been a raw nerve ever since. "My only desire has been to know how my daughters were doing and whether a reunion might take place between...
...daughters declined comment but appeared in court with their father. Kurth condemned Fagan for living an "incredible charade." At the time of the divorce, he had accused her of being an alcoholic and an unfit mother (her lawyer denies both charges). She accused him of involvement in unspecified fraud, and she got custody...
...TSAR: THE LOST WORLD OF NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA By Peter Kurth (Little, Brown; $60). Perhaps it's because we know the Russian imperial family were slaughtered in a Siberian hovel that their graceful life has such enduring appeal. Nicholas and Alexandra were shutterbugs themselves and kept scrapbooks that record the growth of their pretty children and the family's annual progress through palaces and yachts. The heart of the book is its eloquent detail. The tsarevich's little drum, the tsarina's snowy parasols have the impact of domestic artifacts found in a mummy's tomb, bringing a remote past...