Word: tsaritsa
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...limousine that seems far from new. When her motor halts at the Palace of her nephew King Christian X she sits quite still. Her footman, kindliest of Russian servitors, hastens to open the door and helps her to descend. To him she is, will always be, "Matoushka Tsaritsa," ¹beloved wife of the "Little Father" Alexander III and mother of the last Romanov Emperor, Nicholas II. Surely the memories of this once very great lady are stranger, more glamorous, than any fairy-tale by her Danish countryman Hans Christian Andersen. Her new biography is among the most richly colorful...