Word: tsarina
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...midnight on July 16, 1918, in the Ural mining town of Ekaterinburg, Bolshevik jailers gunned down the Russian royal family. Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra, their 14-year-old hemophiliac son Alexei and his four sisters were all shot. A dubious postscript holds that one of the girls, the Grand Duchess Anastasia, escaped and is still alive...
...revolutionary period. Lenin, Trotsky and Kerensky are set against Tsar Nicholas II, his German wife Alexandra, their four pure daughters and a son, Alexis, who is crippled by hemophilia. There is Grigori Rasputin, the Siberian starets whose mystical healing powers and divine judgment endeared him to the Tsarina. This placed him in a position of immense power within the government, despite his fanatical ambitions and licentious behavior. And there are Nicholas' ministers and advisers, his generals and soldiers. All of these people struggle with each other against the background of the Russo-Japanese War, the mounting discontent of the Russian...
...frenzy. She made uncouth noises." Nevertheless David, "a brilliant young architect [who] had done a few big things bigly," is soon rolling in a snowbank with somebody else, "a pink avalanche of loveliness" named Mary. "There . . . with her sables and his great coat for blankets, David wooed a wintry Tsarina swathed in sables . . . The snow gave the deed the absolution of its own purity...
...Well," said the Tsarina, "if you can foresee all that, why don't you do something to prevent...
...History drew the Tsarevich to her, for he had become restless. "Poor little bleeder," she said, stroking his hair, "different only in the organic nature of your disease from so many others who have bled and died. In answer to your question, Madam," she said, glancing at the Tsarina, "I never permit my foreknowledge to interfere with human folly, if only be cause I never expect human folly to learn much from history...