Behind the Veil at the Russian Court (ePub)

Name: Behind the Veil at the Russian Court
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An Eye Witness Account of Palace Intrigues and Gossips by a Princess (Sprache: Englisch)

Autor: Catherine Radziwill

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Behind the Veil at the Russian Court is a book by Princess Catherine Radziwill, a Polish-Russian blue-blood, who was a popular figure at the Imperial courts in Germany and Russia. The book covers the years 1855-1894, and 1894-1913. Excerpt: "In the vast halls of the Winter Palace, on the 18th of February-the 2nd of March according to the Gregorian Calendar-of the year 1855, a great crowd was waiting amidst a profound silence and intense grief for news it expected as much as it dreaded. In the large square in front of the big building which had seen enacted within its walls so many momentous events in the history of Russia and the life of its Tsars, another crowd was gathered. The whole of the long night it had stood there in the snow and cold, with its eyes fixed upon a corner window-that of the room where all knew their Sovereign lay dying. Women were seen weeping, for, in spite of what was said abroad, Nicholas was beloved by his people, and they felt that his demise, occurring as it did at a critical moment in the destinies of his Empire, was an event fraught with mighty consequences..."