Alexandra: The Last TsarinaSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 2007 M04 1 - 384 páginas Taking advantage of material unavailable until the fall of the Soviet Union, Erickson portrays Alexandra's story as a closely observed, enthrallingly documented, progressive psychological retreat from reality. |
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... Grand Duchess of Hesse , lay dying . She was only thirty - five , but looked fifty , her white face with its sharp features gaunt , her eyes deeply sunken in their sockets , her heaving chest narrow and bony . For the past month Alice ...
... Grand Duke Louis , Alice had thrown herself into the cause of social betterment , never satisfied with what she had done and always striving to do , as she said , " the little good that is in my power . " Alice had created a stir in ...
... grand ducal palace , playing duets with Johannes Brahms ( Darmstadters preferred Mozart ) , substituting informality for formal etiquette at court , even holding daring religious views that aimed , as she said , to separate the ...
... Grand Duchess of Hesse's funeral procession made its slow way along the narrow , cobblestoned streets of Darmstadt to the chapel in the Old Palace . There were many mourners , each carrying a lighted torch . Alicky , her brother and ...
... GRAND DUCHY OF HESSE WAS a very minor principality , and the death of its grand duchess a very minor event . The leading power of the age was Britain , and Alicky's grandmother Queen Victoria , who ruled a farreaching empire covering ...
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