Word: tsarina
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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...
...been changed into a sanatorium for sick peasants, although certain of the rooms have been reserved as a museum. . . . " 'From the alleyways of the Livadian Park. . . .' " Here the Tsarina cut her husband short with a stamp of her ghostly foot...
...began," said the Tsarina wearily, "with the German-Russian partition of Poland...
...Until then," the Tsarina went on, "we enjoyed a pleasant, if rather insubstantial, life. We used to haunt the Casino at Monte Carlo. But after the partition of Poland, Nicky insisted on returning to Russia. He began to attend the meetings of the Politburo. The Politburo! Oh, those interminable speeches. . . . Ah, Katorga...
...know what it's like to be a ghost: le silence éternel de ces espaces in finis m'effraie-The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me. Pascal said that, you know. Not bad for a man who had never been liquidated. And then," the Tsarina added, "Stalin overran Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania...