Word: matoushka
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...Matoushka Tsaritsa...
...Copenhagen, Denmark, was the onetime Tsaritsa Maria Feodorovna, sister of the late British Queen-Empress Alexandra, sister of the assassinated King George I of Greece, aunt of the present Kings of England, Norway and Denmark, and mother of Tsar Nicholas the Last. To millions of Russians she was once "Matoushka Tsaritsa," their "Dear little Mother-Empress...
...Dowager Empress whispered a wish to say farewell to the chief of her still faithful Cossack Guard. With tears streaming uncontrollably down his cheeks the giant Cossack came and knelt at her bedside. "God and all his Holy Angels receive you!" he cried, "I shall not survive you long, Matoushka Tsaritsa! I shall come to serve you in Heaven...
...Matoushka Tsaritza...
...husband's empire shattered, she sat last week with clear eyes incapable at last of further tears, as the hymns and songs that had meant life and glory welled again. The Cossacks, Tsarist officers and emigres wore the uniform of her own onetime Imperial Life Guards. "Matoushka Tsaritza!" burst out the Cossack leader, Boris Grabowski, at last. "Dear Little Mother-Empress! God and Holy Russia bless you! Oh, never shall we forget this...