Word: tsaritsas
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Rasputin is a Russian nickname meaning the "Debauchee." For twelve years the Black Monk, Gregory Novihh, famed as Rasputin, dominated the Tsaritsa Alexandra, and through her swayed Tsar Nicholas the Last,* and through him warped the destiny of All the Russias...
...When my father did not return the next morning I telephoned the Prince. He assured me that he did not know where my father could be. I then telephoned the Tsaritsa Alexandra. She sent a carriage...
...sister and I were taken to the Palace of Tsarskoe-Selo into the presence of the Tsaritsa. She told me that my father had met a horrible death. She said that he had been her faithful counselor, the man in whom she had put all her confidence...
...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...