The Last Tsar (76 page)

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. Alexei with his sailor-companion Nagorny on the tsar’s yacht
Standart
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. The grand duchesses with ladies-in-waiting at the beach, Livadia, Crimea.

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. A picnic during a hunt at Spala in Poland, 1912.

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. Nicolas and Alexandra playing tennis, Germany, 1910.

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. Alexandra embroidering in her lilac study at Tsarskoe Selo, 1912.

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. Alexandra and the grand duchesses. Clockwise from top: Tatiana, Alexandra, Anastasia, Marie, Olga.

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. The tsar’s family on the train platform at Borodin 1912, during the center of the Russian victory over Napoleon’s forces on September 7, 1812.

Trophies from the tsarist hunt in Belorussia, 1912.

Nicholas, Alexandra, Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, and his future wife Countess Natalia Sheremetievskya frolicking on the deck of the
Standart
.

Alexei with his playmates and his companion Nagorny.

Tsarevich Alexei.

FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, JULY 1993

English language translation copyright © 1992 by Doubleday,
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Russian language version by Edvard Radzinsky
Translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Radzinskiǐ, Edvard.

[Zhizn′ i smert′; Nikol
II. English]

The last Tsar : the life and death of Nicholas II / Edvard Radzinsky ; translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz. — 1st Anchor Books ed.
p.  cm.
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Doubleday, 1992
I. Title
DK258.R2813 1993b
947.08’3’092—dc20

[B]                                 93–16757

eISBN: 978-0-307-75462-2

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