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  • Instead, he tells a vivid, engrossing tale, describing, for instance, the rise and fall of Rasputin, the czarina's confidant, and giving a harrowing account of the final miserable months of Nicholas II and his family.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Jan 2008

  • The Danish Palaces Egg from that period was so complex -- featuring watercolor miniatures of palaces from the czarina's youth in Denmark -- that it took a year to make.

    Oval Objects of Desire 2008

  • Instead, he tells a vivid, engrossing tale, describing, for instance, the rise and fall of Rasputin, the czarina's confidant, and giving a harrowing account of the final miserable months of Nicholas II and his family.

    Oval Objects of Desire Jan 2008

  • The Danish Palaces Egg from that period was so complex -- featuring watercolor miniatures of palaces from the czarina's youth in Denmark -- that it took a year to make.

    Oval Objects of Desire Jan 2008

  • Instead, he tells a vivid, engrossing tale, describing, for instance, the rise and fall of Rasputin, the czarina's confidant, and giving a harrowing account of the final miserable months of Nicholas II and his family.

    Oval Objects of Desire 2008

  • The Danish Palaces Egg from that period was so complex -- featuring watercolor miniatures of palaces from the czarina's youth in Denmark -- that it took a year to make.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Jan 2008

  • Chemical analysis of the czarina's well-preserved braid, recovered from her sarcophagus in the cemetery of the Kremlin's Archangel Cathedral, revealed unusually high amounts of mercury.

    Ivan's Lament 2001

  • The showdown battle occurred at the village of Maciejowice, some distance south of Warsaw, and in the early stages Kosciuszko's extremely brave peasants with their scythes created their customary havoc with the Russian lines, wave after wave of pike-wielding serfs simply smothering the czarina's troops, but in the end the discipline of a professional army tipped the balance.

    Poland Michener, James 1983

  • A rumor was spread that the czarina's brother had seized the throne and that Ivan had been murdered.

    The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen

  • They then stabbed the czarina's foster father, Matvéef, in her presence, and sacked the palace, murdering many of its inmates.

    The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen

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