The Last Tsar (75 page)
Authors: Edvard Radzinsky
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Vechernii Ekaterinburg
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E
DVARD
R
ADZINSKY
is Russia’s most frequently staged playwright, after Chekhov, and his plays have won him international acclaim. A trained historian, Radzinsky has been working on the life of Tsar Nicholas II for the past twenty-five years.
M
ARIAN
S
CHWARTZ
is a freelance Russian translator living in Texas. Her published translations include a biography of Constructivist Liubov Popova and the prose of many contemporary Russian women, outstanding among them being Nina Berberova
(The Tattered Cloak)
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. Empress Marie Feodorovna with her son Nicholas, 1871.
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. The heir to the throne Nicholas Alexandrovich, St. Petersburg.
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. The family of Emperor Alexander III, St. Petersburg.
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. Nicholas Alexandrovich, St. Petersburg, 1888.
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. Nicholas and Princess Alix of Hesse Darmstadt at Coburg Castle on the day of their engagement, April 8, 1894.
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. Coronation Day procession from Assumption Cathedral to the palace, Moscow, May 14, 1896.
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. Nicholas, Alexandra, and their first child, Grand Duchess Olga, at Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich’s estate, Ilinskoe, 1895.
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. Nicholas and Alexandra on the Kremlin walls.
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. The ballerina Mathilda Kschessinska, 1897.
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. Nicholas in the costume of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, Winter Palace Ball, 1903.
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. Alexandra in the costume of Tsaritsa Maria Ilinichna, Winter Palace Ball, 1903.
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. Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich and his nurse with a goat, 1906.
