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...Nicholas-how nice to see you again!" cried History. "Wherever have you been? And the Tsarina Alix! Your four charming daughters, I presume-gracious, but those bullet holes are disfiguring. And the little hemophiliac-Tsarevich Alexei! Ah, yes, I understand-doomed for a certain term to walk the night. . . . Why, I've scarcely given you a thought since that time when the Communists threw your bodies down the mine shaft in Ekaterinburg [now Sverdlovsk]. Whatever brings you here...
...From the alleyways of the Livadian Park. . . .' " Here the Tsarina cut her husband short with a stamp of her ghostly foot...
Divorced. By Maria Rasputin Bern, 45, animal-taming daughter of mad, murdered Grigory Rasputin, spiritual adviser to the last Tsar and Tsarina of Russia: Gregory Bern (formerly Bernadsky), 44, electrical engineer; after six years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
...father and he were about to gamble away an empire; the days when gay Edward VII brought along the prim Prince of Wales (later George V) who said: "It's like a Turkish bath in there. Goodness knows how Father manages to stick it!''; and Alexandra, Tsarina of all the Russias, who brought along a whole corps of the Imperial Ballet to dance while she gambled-chance can be such a bore...
...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 because I never expect human folly to learn much from history. Besides, I must leave something for my sister, Melpomene, to work...