Chapter XVIII: Part VI: After The Tragedy (3)

It became unbearably hot. A good farmer provided us with food and shelter for the night. We slept till the following morning, then started out again. The farmer’s news was most alarming. He said that the war was continuing. Socialism was spreading to Austria and Germany. Crimes were increasing daily. Criminals were even crossing the border to Russian territory to commit their killings and robbings.

A third prisoner, who had been in the Austrian army, was the last to join us. He had a supply of food which he shared with us. As we came closer to the border, the number of refugees increased, and there was more apprehension. Nikolai expressed fears that we might be turned away from the border, or might even be put into prison. I was prepared for any eventuality. One thing I was sure of: I would never let anyone know who I was.

We finally emerged from that gruesome forest. We crossed a small stream where we drank some water and filled our bottle. As we continued our journey, the Serbian officer began to question me. He asked me so many questions, I was afraid he was suspicious. Nikolai, too, became anxious about these conversations. He said he would go ahead and walk with the Serbian to find out what was in his mind; in the meantime I walked with the Croatian and the former Austrian soldier. Finally Nikolai returned, satisfied and said, “He knows the facts, but will not betray us, I am sure.” The Serbian was a loyal friend, offering considerable protection to me all the way. When we were near the border, he scouted ahead to see what could be done to make the crossing successfully. Nikolai made an arrangement with the Austrian soldier as to where, in case of separation, he could find us.

We were in constant sight of many refugees in rags, the children undernourished, thin and ill. We heard that the German armies were still in Kiev. We saw troop trains going by. Many people were on the way to the border, wearing garments partly military, partly civilian. People were being arrested because they had no passports. Our latest companion was helpful in directing us to the border. He had fought on the Austrian front and was himself on his way to Bukovina. Now we were five, approaching dangerous territory. Two had been prisoners of war and had the necessary documents for crossing the line. The Serbian had his papers. It was suggested that I pose as the wife of one of them for the purpose of entering Rumania. The Serbian would not do; the Croatian would be better. He had been on the German side. Nikolai would be my brother.

At this time we were tired and hungry. We had not eaten in the past twenty-four hours. We located another peasant who furnished us with food but was not able to give us lodging.

Nikolai spotted a haystack. I climbed on top and covered myself with hay. The four men slept at the base of it. I was sound asleep when I was suddenly awakened by a terrific clap of thunder. The rain began to pour. The lightning was frightening. The men called to me to come down. By the time I slid down to the bottom, my clothes were soaking wet. All five of us dug our way into the hay and remained there huddled, warm and steamy until we fell asleep. It must have rained for hours, coming down in sheets. When we were ready to walk again, the fields were a mass of mud and water. My ankle bothered me considerably. Poor Nikolai carried me over the mudholes, up to his knees in water. Many times we were glad that our invalid friend was not with us; he could never have survived the strenuous trip. Every time I stepped, mud oozed out of my boots and my leg hurt. On top of all the trouble I was seized with a terrible itch all over my body, adding a great deal of discomfort to the usual fatigue. Squirming around in my loose-fitting garments did not relieve the itch. Now something new had to be endured. All this may have been due to some poisonous weed in the hay. I was miserable and hungry, having had no food all day. It was decided that in case of separation at the border, Nikolai would follow with Alexander in four or five weeks, and that he could find me through the Austrian soldier.

I had given Nikolai endless messages to give to Alexander. I wanted Alexander to know how grateful I was and how close I felt toward him, for saving my life. It was hard to say good-bye to Nikolai since he was the last link with my beloved Russia. I wanted to throw my arms around him and say a prayer of thankfulness for all the sacrifices he and Alexander had made for me. I felt sure in my heart that the separation was to come soon. He warned me not to cry in case his escape should fail, but to walk away as if I were following my husband. As we continued through the muddy fields, we found some tiny potatoes, which the rains had washed to the surface. We rubbed off the soil and ate them raw. At dusk we were practically at the border. The Ukraine was still occupied by Germany. It was our luck; one month later the uprising was in full swing in Germany.

My face was swollen and covered with small red pimples.

The Serbian had just returned from a scouting search when suddenly we heard the command, “Halt. Where are you going?”

“We are going to a doctor,” answered Nikolai.

“All of you? And for what?” said the guard.

“Look at the lady for our answer,” said Nikolai.

“It looks like cholera. Who are you?” asked the guard.

“Her brother,” said Nikolai, and the Croatian assured the guard that he was my husband. Three of them, the Serbian, the Croatian, and the Austrian soldier produced their papers.

Facing Nikolai, the guard persisted, “Where are you from?”

“The village over there,” answered Nikolai, pointing back. “There are whole families ill, all needing medical care. When we obtain some drugs we will return to the village. We must locate a doctor soon.”

“What doctor?” asked the guard.

“There used to be a doctor over the bridge,” said the Serbian, pointing straight ahead.

“But you cannot go that way. It is under German occupation. Do you really know a doctor?”

“We’ll surely find one.” Nikolai retorted.

“But you absolutely cannot cross here,” said the guard pointing to Nikolai.

“How far are you going?” the guard turned to the Croatian. “How soon will you be back?” he inquired. “You are all right, but where are your wife’s papers?”

“Does she need papers to see a doctor?”

The questions were answered, but no one heard or cared what they were--we were all but drowned in the terrific rain.

“All right, go on.” said the guard at last with a gesture of hopelessness, “but be back in one hour.” He turned to Nikolai saying, “Not you!”

So only four of us crossed the bridge. The flimsy, temporary structure shook as we did so. We glanced into the waters below but saw nothing in the darkness. All nature was angry.

I had made a cross in the air as Nikolai and we others parted in the dark. Only his shadow was running away, in order to escape the guard. I prayed to God that He might spare him and that Alexander, Nikolai, and I would meet again.

Now we were to face a new hazard. As we approached the demarcation line several soldiers approached us, asking where we were going. The two former prisoners of war spoke German and presented to the guards their papers. They were in order. Turning to me, the Croatian said that I was his wife. The Serbian, too, showed his papers. After hours of conversation and questionings and waiting, an officer arrived to say that everything was in order. I was to be permitted to enter Bukovina.

Now I was having my last look toward my troubled country, leaving it to the darkness of night.

When this long journey had started I had had no real wish to leave my country. I was ill in body and soul. I needed rest and quiet. My resistance was low. I wished for security. Willy-nilly, I went along with my early companions, then with Alexander and Nikolai, and lately with my new acquaintances.

With quivering lips, I had now left behind me the land I loved so much, and, somewhere in the wilderness, the remains of my beloved family. There were, also, Alexander and Nikolai. With deep feeling I had left all the tragedies behind.

God wanted it that way--to lay their swords and their lives at the altar of their country. May He grant them rest in Heaven. Father departed with his family very young, but in true Christian faith and fidelity to Russia. Now free from the cruel human lies, injustices and misunderstandings, he left the world not in pomp and glory, but in greater glory. He died for his country and his people whom he loved best.

With these thoughts in my mind I left behind the land of my heritage forever.

XXXIV REFUGE

The rain came down in torrents and washed my tears from my sunken cheeks. Now I was alone with strangers. As we walked away from the border, we were drenched, hungry, and tired, with no prospect of a place to sleep. We spied a faint light ahead and hurried toward it. The man of the house would not accept Russian paper money. At that point the Austrian soldier produced some of his money, which he had been saving, and bargained with the proprietor for us to stay briefly, hoping that I would feel better quickly. I consulted the woman whom we also saw about my itching. She suggested pouring sour milk over a bed sheet and rolling me in it. This she did so completely that only my eyes and mouth were left uncovered. The only unaffected parts of my body were the palms of my hands and soles of my feet. This treatment brought great comfort and relief. My leg was better, though still swollen.

I was ready to resume my travel. The woman provided us with sufficient food to last for several days’ journey. She also gave me some rags with which I wrapped my feet so that they would not slide around in my boots. We passed many wheat fields and woods of tall oak trees; many had been uprooted and were lying dead, leaving big holes in the ground which were now filled with water and mud. The trenches were uncovered and deserted and the rain made rivers of them. The war had turned this area into a battleground. We could see pieces of clothing, brass artillery shell cases, chains, pieces of iron and other odds and ends of metal buried in the trunks of trees--mute testimony to the destructive power of artillery. Tragedy was all around us. Rains had washed away the traces of blood shed here during the past four years. Suddenly I spied a geranium plant in the midst of the holocaust. Here and there were pieces of blankets and abandoned, rusty canteens.

Unexpectedly, here something gave away under my feet, uncovering some leaves. I screamed. It was a pair of feet--the flesh was all gone, just bones. They fell apart under the impact of my weight. The others responding to my scream came over and removed the leaves from the sunken body of a Russian soldier. His uniform was so rotted and stained, it was impossible to tell that he was an officer, but a rusty watch was still wrapped around his wrist bone. The woods showed all kinds of tragedies.

Father knew this battlefield as he himself had been shelled several times while inspecting the troops. For this he and Alexei received their St. George decorations. Father had had his to the last day. He knew the devotion and bravery of his men, those heroes who sacrificed everything. In the end they, too, paid with their lives, making room for Lenin and Trotsky.

The day before the war in 1914, I dreamed that woods like these I had just crossed were in flames, the fire was red and went high up to the sky. I heard the crackling of the trees. I knew then that the war was unavoidable, especially when in the evening for the first time Father appeared late for dinner. Now I recalled my dream as I saw this place of suffering. In distress I left the touching scene.

The men carried me through the deep mudholes, taking turns. I worried that I was too heavy. Actually I weighed only forty kilograms, not quite ninety pounds. The latest companion to join us, the Austrian soldier, had been stationed in these parts with the Austrian army and knew well the nearby villages. Moreover, he himself came from this part of the country. He volunteered to be our guide. A day or two later, in the afternoon, we came to a stretch of woods where we saw some women picking yellow mushrooms.

A young woman among them already had her baskets full. We spoke to the young woman who said she was going home, part way to the nearby village.

We joined her. The men carried her baskets. The odor of these mushrooms brought back gnawing memories. Toward the end of the day, we reached the village. The Austrian soldier knew this village, having relatives here. Through him we were able to be taken care of for the night. He went into the house while we waited outside. An elderly woman came out and in a Slavic language I understood, said, “Come in, my child, I hear you have an injured foot. I know you are hungry. I will have supper ready for you in a minute.” She seemed so clean and kind and motherly, I was drawn to her immediately. We followed her into the house and there we met her daughters who also welcomed us.

I sat on a low stool shivering, while one of the girls took off my muddy boots and the other brought pails of water from outdoors which they poured into a large kettle on the wood-burning stove. My muddy stockings were stuck to my feet. Warm water was poured over them to take off the worst of the plastered mud. The mother took a sharp knife and scraped some salt into a fresh pail of warm water to serve as disinfectant. By the time we finished with my foot, the supper was ready. It consisted of warm mamaliga--a yellow mush made out of maize--with warm milk poured over it. It was a new dish to me, but nothing ever tasted better.

The mother examined my wound. While she washed it a tear dropped on my ankle. Our eyes met. “I think it will be all right, I do not see any infection.”

The warm milk soon stopped the chattering of my teeth. The good girls had already made up a bed for me: a small wooden bed with linen sheets spread over a narrow mattress. They had hardly left the room when I was fast asleep. The girls shared the same room with me, but I was not aware of them. When I woke up the next day, the girls told me that the men had been waiting for me since eleven in the morning.

“What time is it now?” I asked.

“Four in the afternoon,” they laughed. “Several times the men came in and looked to see if you were asleep or dead, and were reassured.”

Evidently I felt safe at last. The girls told me excitedly that the men had slept in the barn and later had helped their mother clean the stable. The Germans had left her one horse and one cow, confiscating all the rest of the livestock before the Russian invasion, fearing that the Russians would take it.

When I started to dress, to my surprise I could not find my wet travelling clothes. Instead of my clothes I found a new outfit: everything from a cotton dress to a pair of shoes. This humble family had presented me with Sunday clothes belonging to their youngest daughter, six months my junior.

I located the men in the garden eating half-dried plums still on the trees. They were relaxed, free and happy after getting me safely across the border.

I, too, was relaxed and free.

At long last I had found a peaceful refuge with this unknown but friendly family which had taken me into its midst and made me a welcome member.

It was October 24th, 1918 ... for me a new day ... and the beginning of a new life.

INDEX

Abalak Monastery, 207, 229, 231

Ai-Todor, 50, 177, 239

Alapaevsk, 110

Alexander I Pavlovich, Emperor, 48, 49, 79

Alexander II Nicholaevich, Emperor, 22, 23, 61, 96, 160, 206

Alexander III Alexandrovich, Emperor, 21, 48, 75, 95, 121, 122, 128,
138, 140, 144, 162, 178, 194, 204, 205, 208, 244, 245, 301

Alexander Mikhailovich, Grand Duke, 126, 127, 135, 138, 369

Alexander (the rescuer) 358, 360, 363-372, 375, 377

Alexander Palace, Tsarskoe Selo, 23, 24, 47, 144, 165

Alexander Park, Tsarskoe Selo, 117, 160

Alexander Station, Tsarskoe Selo, 96, 200

Alexandra, Queen of Great Britain (subsequently Dowager Queen), _née_
Princess of Denmark, 18, 29, 31-33, 36, 37

Alexandra, Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg (previously Hereditary
Princess), _née_ Princess of Great Britain, 77

Alexandra Feodorovna, Empress, _née_ Princess Alix of
Hesse-Darmstadt, 3-9, 12-20, 23, 24, 26-28, 30-40, 43-51,
53-64, 66-69, 71, 72, 75-78, 80, 81, 83, 84, 86-92, 95-124,
126-162, 164, 165, 173, 176-78, 181, 183-87, 189, 190, 195-97,
199, 201-03, 206-08, 211, 213, 214, 217-20, 225-36, 240-44,
248-52, 254-56, 259, 260, 265, 269-77, 279-81, 283, 284, 287,
288, 291-94, 297, 298, 300-03, 305, 307-12, 314, 316, 317, 324,
325, 327-29, 331, 332, 334, 338, 340, 341, 343, 344, 360

Alexandra Georgievna, Grand Duchess (Paul Alexandrovich), _née_
Princess of Greece, 136

Alexandra, 363, 367

Alexandria Cottage, Peterhof, 25, 62, 80, 84, 134

Alexandrovka, 160

Alexei I Mikhailovich, Tsar, 70, 206

Alexei Alexandrovich, Grand Duke, 6

Alexei Nicholaevich, Grand Duke and Tsesarevich, 5-11, 13, 15-17, 19,
23, 26-29, 31-35, 38-40, 42, 45, 50, 51, 54-61, 63-66, 77, 79,
84-86, 89, 98-102, 106, 109-11, 114, 116, 119, 121-26, 128-30,
136, 137, 140-43, 148, 149, 155, 157, 161, 162, 165, 167, 168,
174, 180, 183, 184, 187, 188, 190, 192, 194, 196, 203, 208,
212, 214, 215, 217, 219, 222, 226, 228, 232, 233, 239, 242,
243, 246, 248, 249, 251, 252, 254-57, 259, 265-71, 276-78, 281,
283, 284, 286-88, 301, 303, 305, 307, 308, 310-12, 314, 316,
317, 338, 341, 372, 379

Alexeiev, General, 101, 113, 152, 154, 163, 166, 192

Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, 77

Alfonso, Infante of Spain, 77

Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince of Great Britain, Duke
of Edinburgh, 76

Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse-Darmstadt, _née_ Princess of Great
Britain, 75, 185

Alice, Princess (Andrew) of Greece, _née_ Princess of Battenberg, 37

American, the, 18

Anastasia Nicholaevna, Grand Duchess, esp., 3, 4, 14, 16, 30, 41, 64,
67, 156, 345

Anastasia Nicholaevna, Grand Duchess (Nicholai Nicholaevich),
previously Princess (George Maximilianovich) Romanovsky,
Duchess of Leuchtenberg, _née_ Princess Petrovich Niegosh of
Montenegro, 134

Andrei Alexandrovich, Prince of Russia, 19, 132, 230, 369

Andrew, Prince of Greece, 37

Andrew Vladimirovich, Grand Duke, 138

Anglo-Russian Hospital, Nevsky Prospect, St. Petersburg, 159

Anichkov Palace, St. Petersburg, 92

Annunciation, Church of the, Tobolsk, 229

Apraxin, Count P.N., 157

Archayerevsky woods, Mogilev, 129

Artasalev (?), 201

Assumption, Cathedral of the, Kremlin, Moscow, 85

Augusta Victoria, German Empress, _née_ Princess of
Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderborg-Augustenburg, 37-39

Austria-Hungary, 81-84, 146, 147, 199, 235, 301, 313, 373, 374, 379

Austrian, the, 374-76, 378-80

Avdiev, Commissar, 275

Bagration-Mukhransky, Prince Konstantin Alexandrovich, 110

Baltic Sea, 9, 29, 51, 76, 144

Bariatinsky, Prince, 206

Bariatinsky, Prince “Toly”, 232

Bariatinsky, Princess Maria, 20, 49

Bark, Peter, 159, 195

Bashkirs, 362

Battenberg, George, Prince of (subsequently Earl of Medina, then 2nd
Marquess of Milford Haven), 35

Battenberg, Louis, Prince of (subsequently 1st Marquess of Milford
Haven), 109

Battenberg, Louis, Prince of (subsequently Lord Louis Mountbatten,
now 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma), 35

Baumgarten, Miss, 45

Bazhenovo, 205, 267

Beatrice, Princess (Henry) of Battenberg, _née_ Princess of Great
Britain, 31, 32

Beatrice, Infanta (Alfonso) of Spain, _née_ Princess of Great
Britain, 77

Belaya River, 362

Beloborodov, Commissar, 304, 312

Beloselsky, Prince, 206

Beloselsky-Belozersky, Prince, 33

Belovezh, Grodno, 54

Belyayev, Father, 185

Belyayev, General, 143

Benckendorff, Count Alexander Konstantinovich, 29

Benckendorff, Count Peter Konstantinovich, 32, 68, 128, 134, 147,
150, 157-59, 161, 168, 179, 184, 194, 195, 197, 200, 246, 247,
254, 281, 301

Bendery, 83, 300

Benson and Hedges, Ltd., 299

Berezina River, 54

Berlin, 36, 192, 247

Bernaul, 237

Bismarck, Prince Otto von, 156

Bittner, Mlle., 216-18, 255

Black Sea, 9, 43, 76, 369

“Blessing of the Waters”, 21, 22, 231, 232

Bolin, 134, 190, 302

Bolsheviks, 8, 34, 114, 117, 161, 207, 222-24, 236, 237, 243, 244,
247, 312, 362, 370

Boris III, King of the Bulgars (previously Crown Prince of Bulgaria),
43

Boris I Feodorovich, Tsar, 85, 206, 231

Boris Vladimirovich, Grand Duke, 114, 138, 163

Borodino, 54

Botkin, Dr. Eugene Sergeevich, 33, 40, 41, 57, 61, 149, 151, 161,
167, 187, 196, 201, 203, 207, 211, 220, 233, 242, 249, 252,
254, 259, 260, 269, 270, 272, 273, 275, 276, 279-81, 283, 284,
286-88, 291, 296, 303, 306, 307, 309, 312, 314-17, 341

Botkin, Gleb Evgenievich, 41, 220, 259, 260, 275, 276

Botkina, Tatiana Evgenievna, 41, 220, 259, 260, 275, 276

Brasova, Countess (subsequently Princess) Nathalia Sergeevna, _née_
Sheremetievsky, 157

Bratianu, Ion, 78

Brest-Litovsk Treaty, 248, 294, 295

Bronstein, _see_ Trotsky

Bronstein (Trotsky’s brother), 128, 245

Brussilov, General, 101, 113

Buchanan, Sir George W., 23, 84, 156, 158, 159

Buchanan, Lady Georgina, 98, 158, 159

Bugulma, 362

Bukovina, 374, 377

Bulgarians, 63, 300

Buriats, 367

Butsova, Olga E., 20, 33, 44, 148

Buxhoeveden, Baroness Sophia Karlovna, 45, 71, 72, 161, 187, 211,
229, 265-67, 269, 270

Byzantine, 46, 62, 208, 300

Carol I, King of Rumania, 76, 82

Carol II, King of Rumania (previously Hereditary Prince, then Crown
Prince), 76, 77

Caspian Infantry, the 148th, 87

Catherine II Alexeevna, the Great, Empress, 24, 66, 108, 205, 257

Catherine Palace, Tsarskoe Selo, 24, 104, 192, 220

Caucasus, 55, 127, 149, 154, 244

Cheka, the, 304

Chelyabinsk, 205, 235

Chemodurov, Terenty, 211, 232, 249, 252, 270, 273

Cherbourg, 33, 35

Chernovitsy, Bukovina, 103

“Children’s Island”, Tsarskoe Selo, 23, 183, 184

Christian IX, King of Denmark, 6, 28

Christiania, (Oslo), 29

Christmas, 39, 61, 97, 130-33, 222, 227, 229-31

Clements, Miss, 45

Constantine Constantinovich, Grand Duke, 109, 110, 119, 186

Constantine Constantinovich, Prince of Russia, 110, 137, 312

Constantsa, 76

Copenhagen, 28, 30

Cossacks, 8, 17, 22, 66, 80, 81, 129, 133, 200

Cowes, Isle of Wight, 31-33, 35, 37

Crimea, The, 14, 40, 43, 44, 46-51, 63, 76, 92, 109, 113, 114, 116,
127, 130, 135, 164, 177, 178, 194, 208, 214, 219, 220, 233,
239, 287, 300, 368, 369

Croatian, the, 371, 372, 374, 376, 377

Cyril Vladimirovich, Grand Duke, 77, 114, 138, 155-57, 163

Danilov, General, 20

Darmstadt, 35

Dartmouth, 33

Dehn, Captain Charles, 26, 148, 149

Dehn, Mme. Charles (“Lili”), 26, 148, 161, 176, 370

Dehn, “Titi”, 27, 148

Demidov, Prince, 205

Demidova, Anna, 211, 214, 249, 252, 259, 273, 274, 279, 307, 315-17

Dendeniev, 129

Denmark, 14, 27, 29, 30, 54, 71, 78

Derevenko, Dr., 8, 33, 57, 66, 128, 148, 211, 218, 219, 243, 248,
257, 259, 265, 268-71

Derevenko, Nikolai, 218, 219, 243

Derevenko, “Dina”, 8-10, 15, 17, 32, 39, 99, 149

Dieterichs, General, 113

Dimitri Alexandrovich, Prince of Russia, 19, 230, 369

Dimitri Constantinovich, Grand

Duke, 128, 137

Dimitri Ivanovich, Tsesarevich, 206, 231

Dimitri Pavlovich, Grand Duke, 75, 115, 135-37, 139

Dmitriev, Alexei, 265

Dnieper River, 126, 256, 370

Dobrovolsky, General, 157

Dolgorukov, Prince, 206

Dolgorukov, Prince Vasily, 50, 70, 71, 127, 128, 152, 153, 163, 164,
168, 179, 184, 188, 195, 203, 205, 211, 231, 232, 236, 244-47,
249, 252, 253, 272-74, 282, 341

Dreifuss, Dr., 57, 128

Drenteln, Captain, 27, 33, 129, 164, 168

Dubensky, General, 113, 128, 168

Dudendorff, 131

Duma, Imperial, 93, 95, 111, 121, 135, 138, 152, 155, 158, 162, 166,
167, 199

Dumbadze, General, 49

Dundakova, Princess, 148

Dyulber, 239

Easter, 50, 97, 98, 134, 184-86, 256

Edward VII, King of Great Britain, 6, 29, 31-33, 36, 37

Edward VIII, King of Great Britain (previously Prince Edward David of
Wales, then Prince of Wales, now Duke of Windsor), 29, 33

Ekaterinburg, 6, 8, 41, 62, 67, 70, 71, 90, 114, 143, 146, 180, 204,
205, 211, 224, 227-29, 233, 235-37, 239, 241, 242, 250, 257,
259, 260, 265, 267, 268, 270, 273-76, 281, 288, 294, 304, 309,
312, 315, 332, 333, 340, 341, 346, 353, 358, 364

Eleonor, Grand Duchess of Hesse-Darmstadt, _née_ Princess of
Solms-Hohensolms-Lich, 35, 38

Elizabeth, Queen of Rumania (subsequently Dowager Queen), _née_
Princess of Wied, 76

Elizabeth Alexeevna, Empress, _née_ Princess of Baden, 49

Elizabeth Feodorovna, Grand Duchess (Serge Alexandrovich), _née_
Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt, 19, 20, 39, 50, 75, 92, 93, 107,
110, 114, 115, 119, 120, 135, 137, 139, 146, 147, 197, 265,
309, 312

Elizabeth Mavrikievna, Grand Duchess (Constantine Constantinovich),
_née_ Princess of Saxe-Altenburg, 109, 110

England, 31-33, 62, 71, 87, 109, 115, 123, 146, 151, 156, 159, 173,
179, 191, 195

English Hospital, St Petersburg, 98, 158, 221

Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, 6, 35, 76, 77, 109, 115,
141, 144, 146, 147, 151, 156, 158, 283

Ersberg, Elizabeth, 211, 265, 267, 269

Erzerum, 111

Evpatoria, 114

Ewers, General, 154

Fabergé, Carl Gustavovich, 97, 98, 187

Fallières, Clément-Armand, 33, 34, 80

Fedorov, Dr., 57, 99, 122, 128, 165, 168

Feodor Alexandrovich, Prince of Russia, 19, 230, 369

Feodorovsky Sobor, Tsarskoe Selo, 6, 11, 23, 98, 125, 133, 368

Ferdinand I, King of Rumania (previously Crown Prince), 76

Finland, 25, 27, 30, 53, 116, 150, 151, 329

Fourth Siberian Army Corps, Tomsk, 237

France, 148, 197-99

Francis Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria-Este, 79, 82

Francis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, 81, 82, 147,
278

Fredensborg Palace, 28, 29

Frederick III, German Emperor, 36-38

Frederick Augustus III, King of Saxony, 80

Fredericks, Countess Emma Vladimirovna, 45, 158, 292

Fredericks, Count V.B., 33, 45, 102, 127, 152, 158, 168, 180, 185

Fredericks, Countess (V.B.), 158

French Navy, 33

French Revolution, 198

Friedberg, 35

Gatchina Palace, 143, 144, 155, 168, 245

General Headquarters (Stavka), Mogilev, 85, 95-97, 99-101, 106, 108,
113, 120, 122, 123, 126, 127, 130, 136, 141, 143, 154, 155,
162, 163, 167, 183, 192, 246, 256, 360

George I, King of the Hellenes, 30, 119

George V, King of Great Britain (previously Prince of Wales), 29, 31,
33, 36, 37, 131, 159

George, Prince of Greece, 292, 293

George Mikhailovich, Grand Duke, 137, 312

Germany, 30, 32, 38, 39, 53, 54, 62, 82-84, 87, 104-06, 109, 110,
112, 115, 120, 140, 141, 146-48, 154, 159, 180, 188, 199, 220,
222, 235, 243-46, 250, 273, 295, 296, 300, 301, 311, 312, 343,
373-77, 381

Gibbs, Sidney, 211, 214, 245, 246, 265

Giers, Governor, 359

Gilliard, Pierre, 8, 56, 75, 99, 162, 177, 187, 199, 203, 211, 212,
217, 232, 236, 237, 243, 246, 248, 249, 252, 254, 255, 260,
265-67, 269, 276

Girardi, Colonel, 159

Godunov family, 70, 85, 206, 231

Goldstein, Arnold, 215

Golitsyn, Prince, 162

Goloshchekin, Commissar, 268, 274, 291, 299, 304, 308, 309, 312, 313

Goremykin, Ivan L., 369

Goriev (Goldmann), 223

Governor’s House, Tobolsk, 72

Grabbe, Count, 164, 168

Great Britain, 31, 109

Greece, 62

Greek Orthodox religion, 63, 92, 97, 199, 300

Grey, Lady Sybil, 98

Gribushchin, 162

Grodno, 54

Grodno Hussars, 39

Grooten, General von, 143, 157, 159

Guchkov, 115, 127, 155, 158, 162, 243

Gustavus V, King of Sweden, 30

Gustavus VI Adolphus, King of Sweden (previously Crown Prince), 31

Hague, The, 82, 146

“Hampshire”, 136

Hanbury-Williams, General Sir John, 23, 101, 111, 112, 114, 129, 130,
136, 246

Heath, Charles, 21

Hendrikova, Countess Anastasia V., 149, 187, 203, 211, 217, 245, 246,
250, 265, 267, 269

Henry, Prince of Prussia, 6, 31, 36, 56

Hermogen, Bishop, 229

Hesse, General, 19

Hesse-Darmstadt, 106

Hindenburg, General, 140, 141

Hohenberg, Sophie, Duchess of, _née_ Countess Chotek, 79, 82

Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Ernest, Prince of (previously Hereditary Prince
of), 77

“Hohenzollern”, 54

Holy Sanctuaries, Red Square, Moscow, 254

Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, 165

Holy Trinity, Cathedral of the, Ipatiev Monastery, Kostroma, 69, 70

Horse Guards, 22

Horwath, Commissar, 304

Hungarians, 299, 304

Hussars, 22, 36, 81

Hvidore Villa, near Klampenborg, 28

Ignatiev, Count, 205

Igor Constantinovich, Prince of Russia, 75, 110, 114, 128, 132, 137,
312

Iliana (or Irina), 342

Image of the Holy Virgin, Abalak Monastery, 207, 208, 229

Imperial Family, 19, 23, 54, 68, 80, 89, 104, 107, 116, 131, 136,
138, 144, 145, 155, 161, 179, 185, 205, 224, 229, 236, 242-44,
257, 294, 301, 308, 344, 355, 367

Imperial Guard, 179

Imperial Theater, St. Petersburg, 46

Imperial Yacht Club, St. Petersburg, 138

International Arbitration Court, The Hague, 82

Ipatiev House, Ekaterinburg, 70, 268, 274, 278, 288, 364

Ipatiev Monastery, Kostroma, 69, 70

Irene, Princess (Henry) of Prussia, _née_ Princess of
Hesse-Darmstadt, 6, 31, 32, 36, 37, 56, 57, 64

Irina Alexandrovna, Princess of Russia, Princess (Felix Felixovich)
Youssoupoff, 19, 135, 137, 230, 369

Irtysh River, 207, 272

Ivan IV Vasilievich, the Terrible, Tsar, 189, 206, 231

Ivan Constantinovich, Prince of Russia, 110, 137, 312

Ivanov, 211

Ivanov, General, 101, 113, 154, 194, 232

Ivanovsky Nunnery, Tobolsk, 230

Izvolsky, Alexander Petrovich, 33, 54

Jagernsfeld, 31

Japan, 224, 242, 292, 309

Japan, Emperor of, 224, 292

Japan, Empress of, 224

Japan, two Princes of, 224

Japanese Navy, 5, 6

Japanese Red Cross, 224

Jemmy, 196, 227, 309, 310, 316

Jews, 21, 105, 274, 300, 301, 304

Johnson, Nicholas, 194, 369

Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, 197

Joy, 180

Jubilee of Romanov Dynasty Tercentenary, 66, 68, 71, 308

“K”, Mr., 275

Kalenin, 162

Kalmuks, 207, 215, 218, 223

Kamenev (Rosenfeld), 68, 189, 223, 243, 244, 293

Karamzin, 363

Karlsruhe, 35

Kaulbach, 197

Kazaks, 207

Kazan, Cathedral of Our Lady of, St. Petersburg, 66, 95

Keller, General Count, 113, 163

Kerensky, Alexander Feodorovich, 115, 158, 162, 168, 173-76, 178,
179, 182, 183, 187, 188, 191-95, 198-203, 215, 216, 220-22,
224, 231, 243, 253, 281, 329, 370

Khabalov, General, 155

Kharaks, 50

Kharitonov, Ivan, 211, 213, 265, 269, 275-77, 279, 280, 282, 284,
307, 315

Khitrovo, Boyar, 363

Khitrovo, Liuba, 221

Khitrovo, Rita, 216, 221, 363

Khvostov, 369

Khvostova, Anastasia, 369

Kiakhta, 205

Kiel, 31

Kiev, 43, 85, 91, 126-28, 131, 360, 374

Kirghiz, 207, 367

Kirpichnikov, 269

Kishinev, 79

Kitchener, Lord, 136

Kobylinsky, Colonel Eugene, 173, 179, 180, 193, 203, 207, 208,
213-16, 218, 221, 224, 228-31, 233, 236, 237, 249, 250, 252,
255, 258, 259, 292

Kolchak, Admiral, 114, 364

Konrad, Mr., 18, 78, 187

Koreiz, 239

“Kormilets”, 206

Kornilov, 212

Kornilov, General, 113, 173, 179, 188, 192

Kornilov House, Tobolsk, 212

Korovichenko, Colonel, 173, 174, 177, 179, 188

Kostritsky, Dr., 220, 235

Kostroma, 69, 70

Kotsebue, Captain Count, 188

Koulikovsky, Colonel Nicholai Alexandrovich, 91, 127, 369

Kozmin, Commissar, 201

Krasnoe Selo, 80

Krasnov, 47

Kremenchug, 370

Kremlin, Moscow, 70, 85, 93, 235, 254, 313

Krestovaya Gora, 41

Kronstadt, 26, 71

“Krugom”, 215

Krymov, General, 153

Kursk, 137, 367, 370, 371

Kushelev, 201

Lancers, 81

Latvians, 299, 313

Lechitsky, General, 113

Lenin, Nikolai (Vladimir Ilyich Ulianov, previously Tsederbaum or
Tsederblum) 68, 128, 189, 199, 223, 224, 242-45, 253, 293, 300,
302, 308, 312, 313, 362, 379

Lermontov monument, Penza, 367

Liberty’s of London, 18

Life Guards, 155

Linevich, Captain, 159

Lisa, 241

Liteiny Arsenal, St. Petersburg, 148

Litovsky Regiment, 154

Livadia, Yalta, 40-42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 62, 75, 96, 134, 238

Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, 35

Louis XVI, King of France, 198, 199

Louise, Queen of Denmark, _née_ Princess of Hesse-Cassel, 28

Ludendorff, General, 107, 140, 141, 235, 246, 293, 312

Lutheran Church, Tobolsk, 208

Lvov, Prince George Evgenievich, 157, 158, 192

Lyons, 6, 197

Makarov, Commissar, 173, 180, 203, 207, 208, 211-13, 216, 218

Maklakov, A. A., 369

Mannheim, 35

Marat, 199

Marie, Queen of Rumania (subsequently Dowager Queen, previously Crown
Princess), _née_ Princess of Great Britain, 76-78

Marie Alexandrovna, Empress, _née_ Princess of Hesse-Darmstadt, 77

Marie Alexandrovna, Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (subsequently
Dowager Duchess),
Princess (Alfred) of Great Britain, Duchess of Edinburgh, _née_ Grand
Duchess of Russia, 77

“Marie-Anastasia Workshop”, 102

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, _née_ Archduchess of Austria, 6,
197, 198

Marie Feodorovna, Dowager Empress, _née_ Princess Marie Dagmar of
Denmark, 6, 13, 14, 27-30, 35, 39, 48, 54, 66-68, 75, 81, 85,
87, 91-93, 95, 104, 109, 126-28, 131, 152, 163, 178, 193, 194,
220, 221, 230, 239, 240, 245, 331, 360, 368

Marie Nicholaevna, Grand Duchess, 3-5, 7, 10-13, 15-18, 26, 32, 34,
35, 40, 41, 51, 57, 64, 65, 67, 80, 87, 89, 90, 103, 108, 135,
137, 143, 149-51, 156, 157, 161, 164, 174, 187, 193, 194, 196,
198, 208, 216, 227, 229, 241, 248, 250-52, 254-59, 269, 270,
272, 273, 275, 276, 293, 299, 308, 312, 341

Marie Pavlovna (“the younger”), Grand Duchess, subsequently Princess
(William) of Sweden, Duchess of Södermanland, then Princess
(Serge Mikhailovich) Putiatin, 135

Marie Pavlovna (“the elder”), Grand Duchess (Vladimir Alexandrovich),
_née_ Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, 138, 155-57

Marie Thérèse, Princess (Louis Antoine) of France, Duchess of
Angoulême, _née_ Princess of France, 6, 197, 198

Markov, 292

“Marseilles”, 33

Martha and Mary, Convent of, Moscow, 93

Martov (Tsederbaum, Tsederblum?), 223

Marushka, 358, 359, 361

Mary, Queen of Great Britain (subsequently Dowager Queen, previously
Princess of Wales), _née_ Princess of Teck, 29, 33, 36

Massandra, 42, 49

Mebus (or Nebus), 303, 304

Medviedev, 299

Meller-Zakomelsky, Baroness, 205

Metropolitan’s residence, Tobolsk, 230

Michael I Feodorovich, Tsar, 69, 70

Michael Alexandrovich, Grand Duke, 70, 137, 143, 155, 157, 165, 167,
168, 193, 194, 205, 312, 369

Mieshkovsky (Hollender), 223

Mikhailov, Moscow, 347

“Mikhailov, Moskva” (label), 347

Mikhovsky (Goldenberg), 223

Mirabeau, 199

Mirbach, Count von, 235, 254, 273, 274, 293, 312

Mogilev, 20, 96, 99, 102, 113-15, 122, 128-30, 133, 134, 140, 152,
154, 162, 163, 225, 256

Moltke, General von, 246

Monomakh, 70

Mordvinov, Colonel, 127, 164, 165, 168

Moscow, 19, 20, 50, 61, 67, 68, 71, 84, 85, 92, 115, 119, 235, 245,
254, 257, 273-75, 292-96, 301, 302, 311-13, 347, 369

Mossolov, General A. A., 168

Mountbatten, _see_ Battenberg

Mramorskaya, 353, 366

Mstislavsky, 178, 179

Muraviev-Amursky, Count, 205

Murmansk, 179, 188

Nagorny, Klementy, 8, 10, 99, 122, 211, 219, 232, 243, 255, 256, 259,
260, 265, 267-69, 276, 281, 284, 286, 291

“Naimichka” (The Maid), 256

Nakhichevan, General the Khan, 163

Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 54, 192, 222

Narishkin, Cyril, 164, 168

Narishkina, Mme. Elizabeth A., 43, 45, 51, 93, 102, 104, 115, 118,
151, 164, 176, 309

Narodny Dom, St. Petersburg, 46

“Nerukotvorenny Spas”, 315

Neva River, 21, 95, 135, 223

Nevsky Prospect, St. Petersburg, 159

Nicholai Mikhailovich, Grand Duke, 137, 312

Nicholai Nicholaevich, Grand Duke, 95, 127, 134, 137, 153, 154, 157

Nicholas I Pavlovich, Emperor, 25, 135, 167

Nicholas II Alexandrovich, Emperor, 3, 5-14, 19-23, 25-28, 30, 31,
33, 35, 36, 38-40, 42-49, 52-58, 60-62, 66, 67, 69, 70, 75,
78-88, 90-109, 111-31, 133-38, 140-42, 145-49, 152-57, 159-69,
173-80, 182-202, 204-08, 211-14, 216-26, 228, 229, 231, 232,
234-40, 242-54, 256, 257, 259, 267, 269-88, 291-303, 305-17,
325, 327-29, 338, 341, 343, 344, 351, 355, 360, 369, 377, 379

Nicholas Concert Hall, Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, 84

Nicholas Garden, Simbirsk, 363

Nicholas Institute for Girls, Reval, 54

Nicholas Palace, Moscow, 71

Nicholas railway, 96

Nikita Alexandrovich, Prince of Russia, 19, 230, 369

Nikitsky Botanical Garden, near Livadia, 47

Nikolai (friend of rescuer), 363-68, 370-77

Nikolsky, 216, 219-220, 233, 236, 243

Nilov, Captain, 113, 127, 128, 152, 153, 168, 183

Nina Georgievna, Princess of Russia, subsequently Princess (Paul
Alexandrovich) Chavchavadze, 50

_Niva_, 120

Nizhni Novgorod, 68

North Sea, 51, 76, 136

Norway, 29

Novgorod, 132

Ob River, 237

“Obiednitsa”, 306

“Obiednya”, 306

Obolensky, Princess Elizabeth N., 33, 71, 148

Odense, Bay of, 27

Odessa, 79

Okhrana, 43

Oleg Constantinovich, Prince of Russia, 110

Olga Alexandrovna, Grand Duchess, Duchess (Peter Alexandrovich) of
Oldenburg, then Mme. Nicholai Alexandrovich Koulikovsky, 29,
78, 85, 90, 91, 95, 126, 127, 177, 194, 220, 230, 235, 240,
245, 360, 369

Olga Constantinovna, Queen of the Hellenes (subsequently Dowager
Queen), _née_ Grand Duchess of Russia, 30, 119, 186

Olga Nicholaevna, Grand Duchess, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 16, 17, 19,
26, 32, 34, 35, 51, 57, 60, 64, 65, 67, 76-78, 86-92, 98,
100-03, 111, 114, 123, 124, 127, 130, 133-35, 137, 140, 143,
145, 151, 156, 174, 190, 197, 217, 227-29, 236, 240, 247, 248,
254, 256, 267, 268, 270, 271, 282, 287, 289, 307, 309, 311,
312, 314, 329

Omsk, 235

Oranienburg Forest, near Berlin, 36

Orbeliani, Princess Sonia I., 116, 130

Oreanda Chapel, Oreanda, Crimea, 208

Orlov, Prince, 154

Orlova-Davydova, Countess, 221

Osborne House, Isle of Wight, 32, 33

Oslo (Christiania), 29

Ostrogorsky, Dr., 57

“Otsu mark” or “Otsu scar”, 292, 293, 317

Palei, Prince Vladimir Pavlovich, Count of Hohenfelsen, 137, 312

Palei, Princess Olga Valerianovna, Countess of Hohenfelsen,
previously Mme. Erich von Pistohlkors, _née_ Karnovich, 136

Palm Sunday, 185, 273

Pankratov, Commissar, 216, 219, 221, 233, 236

Paul I Petrovich, Emperor, 140, 144

Paul Alexandrovich, Grand Duke, 136-38, 150, 155, 161, 312

Pavlovsk, 13

Pavlovsky Regiment, 81

Pelts, Governor of Mogilev, 127

Penza, 367

Pergolovo Forest, near Tsarskoe Selo, 160

Perm, 107, 204, 205, 246, 369

Persia, Shah of, 190

Persia, 61, 95, 134, 137, 160, 161, 294

Peter I Alexeevich, the Great, Emperor, 25, 54, 117, 253

Peter Alexandrovich, Duke of Oldenburg, 91

Peter Nicholaevich, Grand Duke, 239

Peterhof Palace, 3, 25, 26, 53, 80, 131

Petrov, Peter Vasilievich, 75

Petrovsky, 221

Petrovsky, Shura, 221

Pilsudski, General, 235, 242, 302

Plevitskaya, Mme., 51, 69, 89

Pobedonostsev, Konstantin, 20

Poincaré, Raymond, 80

Pokrovskoe, 207

Poland, 54, 60, 85

“Polar Star”, 27, 291

Polish Army, 69

Polupanov, 129

Port Arthur, 5

Potsdam, 36, 37

Pravosudovich, 220

Preobrazhensky Regiment, 27, 81, 164, 300

_Prosphora_, 306, 314

Provisional Government, 145, 149, 150, 158-60, 163, 165, 166, 168,
174, 180, 191, 193, 221, 222

Prussia, 106

Pskov, 162, 163, 165

Purishkevich, 135

Putiatin, Prince, 157, 159

Radziwill, Princess, 156

_Ramona_, 18

Rasputin, Grigory Efimovich, 19, 20, 44, 58, 59, 102, 109, 112, 116,
118-20, 122-24, 127, 130, 135-37, 139, 140, 160, 199, 207, 227,
241, 272, 292, 343

Rasputina, Matriona Grigorievna (subsequently Mme. Solovieva), 135,
227, 241, 242, 292

Red Square, Moscow, 253

Redeemer, Convent of the, Simbirsk, 363

Resin, General, 113, 159

Reval, 29, 30, 54

Rickel, General, 129

Riepin, 17

Rodionov, Commissar, 257, 258, 260, 265, 266, 272

Rodzianko M. V., 138, 143, 154, 155, 159, 192

Roman Catholic religion, 301

Romanov, Feodor Nikitich (Patriarch Philaret), 69

Romanov dynasty, 20, 66, 69, 70, 78, 138, 140, 194, 206, 244, 308,
312, 315

Romanov Institute of Physical Therapy, Sevastopol, 114

Romanovsky, Prince George Maximilianovich, Duke of Leuchtenberg, 134,
164

Roosevelt, Theodore, 93

“Rossia”, 206, 260, 265

Rostislav Alexandrovich, Prince of

Russia, 19, 230, 369

Rostovtsev, Count J. N., 195

Rovno, 360

Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, 33

Royal Yacht Club, Cowes, Isle of Wight, 32, 37

Rumania, 63, 76, 79, 370, 374

Russian Army, 130, 141, 235, 243, 360

Russian Navy, 5, 27

Russian Orthodox religion, 157, 165, 208

Russian Red Cross, 98, 103-05, 135, 146

Russian Revolution, 109, 198, 300

Russo-Japanese War, 23, 43, 44, 80, 92, 105, 128

Ruzsky, General, 113, 152-56, 162, 163, 165, 168, 175, 183, 199, 243

Sablin, 164

Sadovaya Avenue, Penza, 367

Sadovaya Avenue, Tsarskoe Selo, 367

St. Alexius, 60

St. Andrew, Order of, 66

St. Catherine, Order of, 66, 159

St. Feodor, 69

St. George, the Great Martyr, 166

St. George Cross, 130, 232, 360

St. George decorations, 232, 379

St. Job, 70

St. John, 280

St. Mitrophanes, Convent of, Voronezh, 368

St. Nicholas, 113

St. Petersburg (subsequently Petrograd, now Leningrad), 5, 19, 21,
23, 43, 46, 49, 61, 66, 67, 71, 81, 84, 90, 92, 98, 104, 106,
108, 111, 118, 119, 134, 135, 137-39, 141, 143, 147, 148, 152,
154, 155, 157, 158, 162, 163, 167, 168, 178, 184, 190, 212,
214, 220, 221, 253, 292, 302

St. Tatiana, 232

St. Vladimir, 360

Sts. Peter and Paul, Cathedral of, St. Petersburg, 46, 49, 95

Sts. Peter and Paul, Fortress of, St. Petersburg, 5

Sandringham, Norfolk, 131

Sarajevo, 79, 82

Sazonov, S. D., 84, 147

Schleswig-Holstein, 54

Schneider, Ekaterina, 107, 174, 187, 197, 203, 211, 245, 246, 250,
258, 265, 267, 269

Serbia, 63, 80-83, 146

Serbian, the, 371, 372, 374, 376, 377

Serge Alexandrovich, Grand Duke, 75, 92, 93, 137, 142

Serge Mikhailovich, Grand Duke, 114, 137, 312

Sergievo, 85

Sevastopol, 48, 114, 369

Shcheglov, 120

Sheremetiev, 206

Sheremetiev, Count, 119, 128, 129

Sheremetieva, Countess, 91

Shevchenko, Taras, 256

Shulgin, 155, 158, 162, 243

Siberia, 49, 72, 105, 108, 135, 160, 187, 202, 204-06, 216, 230, 237,
242, 251, 329, 350

“Sibiriak”, 206

Sidniev, Ivan, 211, 249, 273, 281, 284, 286, 291, 308

Sidniev, Leonid, 211, 265, 269, 275, 277, 284, 286, 287, 307, 308

Sigismund, Prince of Prussia, 56

Simbirsk (now Ulianov), 223, 362, 363, 366

Sinai, 61

Sixth Army Corps, 54

Slavs, 54, 84, 294

Soldiers’ Committee, Tobolsk, 215, 229, 230, 234

Soloviev, 227, 228, 241, 242, 292

Spala, 53, 54, 56, 60, 190

“Standard”, 8, 9, 21, 26, 27, 30, 31, 33, 51, 53, 76, 164, 183

Stenbock-Fermor, Countess, 205

“Stenka Razin”, 363

Stockholm, 30

Stolypin, Peter Arkadevich, 43

Storozhev, Father, 306, 307, 364

Stroganov, Count, 205

Sukhanov (Himmer), 189, 223

Sukhomlinov V. A., 146, 292

Susanin, 69

Sverdlov, Commissar, Jacob, 274, 299, 308, 312, 313

Svoboda Street, Tobolsk, 211

Sweden, 32, 147, 309

Switzerland, 246

Taganrog, 49

Tambov, 368

Taneev, Alexander Sergeevich, 44, 150, 151

Taneeva, Mme., _née_ Tolstaya, 44, 150, 151

Tartars, 47, 70, 363, 367

Tatiana Nicholaevna, Grand Duchess, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 26,
32, 34, 35, 51, 57, 65, 67, 69, 80, 86, 88-90, 92, 98, 100,
101, 111, 123, 135, 137, 143, 156, 174, 177, 187, 190, 197,
226-28, 232, 240, 248, 249, 252, 254, 256, 258, 266, 268, 271,
287, 312, 314, 316, 317, 329-31, 333

Tatishchev, General Count Ilia, 82, 115, 195, 197, 203, 205, 211,
221, 222, 227, 231, 232, 236, 237, 245, 246, 248, 249, 253,
255-57, 259, 265, 267, 269, 270, 304

Tatishcheva, Irene, 240

Tauride Palace, St. Petersburg, 93, 111, 155

Tchaikovsky, 78, 283

Tegleva, Alexandra (subsequently Mme. Pierre Gilliard), 211, 255,
258, 260, 265, 269

Terijoki, Gulf of Finland, 116, 150, 151

_Thirteen Years at the Russian Court_, by Pierre Gilliard, 199

Thyra, Crown Princess of Hanover, Princess (Ernest Augustus) of Great
Britain, Duchess of Cumberland, _née_ Princess of Denmark, 29

Tiflis, Georgia, 154

Tischendorff, 61

Tiumen, 205, 206, 235, 255, 257, 266, 268, 272

Tobol River, 207, 231, 265

Tobolsk, 34, 62, 71, 72, 78, 90, 92, 107, 179, 184, 193, 196, 206-08,
213-16, 219-21, 224, 227-31, 239, 242, 245, 248-50, 260, 267,
269, 270, 272-75, 279, 286, 288, 291-93, 304, 309, 315, 325,
329, 332, 340, 341, 366, 368, 370

Tolstoys, 19, 184

Tomsk, 49, 204, 235, 237, 238

Tomsk Monastery, 238

Tomsk, University of, 204

Trans-Siberian railway, 238

Trans-Baikal, 205

Troitsko-Sergievskaya Lavra, 85

Troitsky Bridge, Neva River, St. Petersburg, 95, 142

Trotsky (Leon D. Bronstein) 68, 128, 189, 199, 223, 242-45, 274, 300,
303, 308, 312, 313, 379

Trup, 211, 265, 269, 275, 279, 280, 284, 307, 317

Tsarskoe Selo, 6, 10, 13, 20, 23-25, 34, 38, 40, 41, 43, 44, 47, 49,
61, 62, 66, 71, 72, 80, 84, 86, 104, 114, 116, 119, 122, 126,
130, 134-36, 139, 141, 143, 144, 149, 150, 156, 159-61, 164,
168, 169, 175, 184, 186, 187, 189, 200, 202, 208, 212-14, 217,
218, 220, 221, 224, 227, 228, 234, 237, 241, 260, 274, 281,
283, 292, 293, 332, 335, 338, 367, 368

Tsarskaya Pristan, 48, 114

Tsederbaum (Tsederblum?) family, 223

Tula, 369

Tulyatskaya Street, Tobolsk, 208

Tula River, 207

Tutcheva, Mlle., 19, 20, 33

Tutelberg, Miss, 211, 214, 265

Ufa, 309, 362

Ufa River, 362

Uglich, 230

Uglich, Bell of, Tobolsk, 230

Uhlan Guards, 132, 188

Ukraine, The, 104, 147, 222, 256, 300, 359, 375

Uktus, 353, 366

Ulianov, Alexander Ilyich, 128, 245

Ulianov, Vladimir Ilyich (_see_ Lenin, Nikolai)

Ulianov family, 223

Ural Mountains, 22, 204

Vanka, 15, 16

Vasilchikova, Princess Maria, 106, 146, 147, 153

Vasili Alexandrovich, Prince of Russia, 19, 230, 369

Vassiliev, Father (at Tsarskoe Selo), 58, 60, 98, 116, 117, 125, 160,
185

Vassiliev, Father (at Tobolsk), 229, 231, 288

Vatrik, Dr., 301

Vershchinin, 168, 203

Viazemsky, Admiral Prince, 27

Viborg Infantry, 53, 160

Victoria, Princess (Louis) of Battenberg (subsequently Marchioness,
later Dowager Marchioness, of Milford Haven), _née_ Princess of
Hesse-Darmstadt, 6, 35, 109, 159

Victoria, Dowager German Empress, _née_ Princess of Great Britain,
36, 37, 53

Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 5, 54, 75, 77, 83, 103, 120, 145,
151, 156, 185, 190, 214, 305

Victoria, Queen of Sweden, _née_ Princess of Baden, 30

Victoria Feodorovna, Grand Duchess (Cyril Vladimirovich), (previously
Grand Duchess of Hesse-Darmstadt), _née_ Princess Victoria
Melita of Great Britain, 76, 77, 151, 156

“Victoria and Albert”, 29, 31

Vigée-Lebrun, Mme., 197

Vishniakova, Maria, 19

Vladimir Alexandrovich, Grand Duke, 156

Vladimir (town), 68

Vladivostok, 204, 224

Volga River, 69, 221, 362, 363

Volinsky Regiment, 154

Volkonsky, Prince, 119, 222

Volkov, Alexei, 211, 259, 265

Volynsky, 206

Voronezh, 368

Vorontsov-Dashkov, Count, 205

Vorontsova-Dashkova, Countess, 51

Vostorgov, 369

Voyeykov, General, 44, 128, 143, 163, 168

Voykov, 143, 242, 260, 270, 280, 292, 302, 303, 308, 312, 364

Vyrubov, 44, 151

Vyrubova, Anna Alexandrovna, _née_ Taneeva, 44, 45, 109, 112, 114-16,
122, 124, 130-32, 134, 135, 150, 151, 160, 174, 176, 196, 220,
227-29, 241, 242, 292, 293, 304, 343

Wagner, Richard, 34, 78

Warsaw, 56, 103

Wight, Isle of, 31

Wilhelm I, German Emperor, 37

Wilhelm II, German Emperor, 6, 30, 31, 36-39, 53, 54, 82, 83, 92,
100, 101, 105, 107, 112, 115, 118-20, 141, 147, 156, 188, 198,
246, 247, 311, 312, 329

Winter Palace, St. Petersburg, 22, 23, 66-68, 84, 92, 160, 222

Witte, Count S. Yu., 43, 92, 93

Wolfsgarten, near Darmstadt, 35

World War I, 48, 54, 156

Xenia Alexandrovna, Grand Duchess (Alexander Mikhailovich), _née_
Grand Duchess of Russia, 19, 95, 127, 135, 177, 178, 194, 214,
220, 221, 230, 235, 239, 240, 369

Xenia Georgievna, Princess of Russia, subsequently Mrs. William
Bateman Leeds, Jr., now Mrs. Herman H. Jud, 50

Yakovlev, 245, 248, 252, 273, 293, 294

Yalta, 40, 41, 48, 51, 75

Yanin, General, 113

Yaroshinsky, 90, 228, 241, 242, 292, 293

Yaroslavl, 68

Yermak, 230

Youssoupoff, Prince Felix Felixovich, 135, 137, 154, 232

Youssoupoff family, 50, 51, 239

Yuriev-Zakharin, Ivan Nikitich, 206

Yuriev-Zakharin, Vasili Nikitich, 206

Yurovsky, 233, 242, 270, 274-76, 279, 281-84, 288, 291-93, 297-300,
303-10, 312-14, 316, 317, 327, 329, 360, 365

Yurovsky, Rabbi, 276

Zagorsky (Krachmann), 223

Zamoyski, Count Adam, 157

Zaslovsky, 237-39, 241, 268

Zhukovsky, 23

Znamenie, Our Lady of (Znamensky Sobor), Tsarskoe Selo, 23, 88, 117,
177, 178

Zinoviev (Apfelbaum), 68, 189, 199, 223, 243, 244, 312

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

The Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaevna was born in Peterhof, Russia, in 1901. A member of a close-knit family, the Grand Duchess was educated--as were her three sisters and her brother, the Tsesarevich Alexei--by private tutors, Russian, English and Swiss.

She accompanied her Family on several trips abroad and on numerous trips within the country, including extensive travel in 1913--a year widely celebrated in Russia as the Three Hundredth Anniversary of the ascension to the throne of the first Romanov, Michael Feodorovich.

After the escape of the Grand Duchess Anastasia from Russia--the point at which the present volume ends--she lived for short periods in Rumania and Yugoslavia and for many years in the United States, principally in Illinois and Wisconsin. She is now an American citizen and is currently living in New York City.

A future volume, on which she is working, will deal with her life and experiences in the post-escape years.

A lover of animals, the Grand Duchess is now completing a short book entitled _My Friends: the Dogs_, all of the royalties from which will be contributed to animal shelters and organizations devoted to the health and well-being of dogs.

The Grand Duchess Anastasia is creating a foundation which will establish and maintain a museum devoted to Russian culture and containing a chapel in memory of her Family. A substantial portion of her royalties from her autobiography will be turned over to the foundation and to a very small number of charitable and philanthropic organizations which she has, for the most part, already definitively selected.

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Transcriber’s Note

Minor printer’s errors were corrected by the transcriber. As far as possible, however, the original spelling and punctuation have been retained.

There is a signature on the image of “THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS II”, and one on that of “THE TSESAREVICH ALEXEI--MOGILEV--1916”, following page 204. Both were illegible, and therefore could not be preserved.

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