Word: tsarevitch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Princess Alice, daughters of England's Queen Victoria, carried this curse to the blood of the imperial Russian and royal Spanish families. Princess Alice married Prince Louis of Hesse and was the mother of Alexandra, last Empress of Russia, who in turn transmitted hemophilia to her only son, Tsarevitch Alexis. Princess Beatrice married Prince Henry of Battenberg, son of Grand Duke Alexander of Hesse, and was the mother of Victoria of Spain, who passed on the curse to her son, Prince Alfonso, onetime heir to the Spanish throne, and the late Prince Gonzalo. Last week the ancient curse pointed...
...shot of Nicholas II and his four daughters who wear feathered hats, ends with a close-up of Lenin in 1921. Between the two, it assembles an extraordinarily complete record of major happenings, catches the spirit of ten incredible years. Best shots: palace guards helping the 10-year-old Tsarevitch mount his horse; Petrograd crowds tossing bouquets at Kerensky; an unidentified Bolshevik soldier smiling at his White firing squad...
Kiev and discovered a black-bearded peasant chopping wood in the monastery garden, who claimed that he could cure the Tsarevitch...
...influence with the Tsar and Tsarina was due to the fact that he was able to keep the Tsarevitch amused, to quiet his tantrums and occasionally to stop his bleeding. He ran an elaborate spy service of his own through which he was able to keep the Little Father advised on court intrigues. He gave extraordinary breakfast parties at which his handsome hobble-skirted admirers were permitted to lick the fingers that Rasputin had just dunked in his fish soup. During the War he was strongly suspected of being a German agent...
...sound thoroughly regal. Director Richard Boleslavsky, imported from the Moscow Art Theatre, saw to it that the production had surface authenticity, managed sometimes to make it seem more than what it probably is-a resourceful compendium of dignified and exciting hokum. Good shot: Rasputin ordering the Tsarevitch to look through a microscope at a fight between a fly and an ant, then pushing the Tsarevitch away so that he can see it himself...