The Resurrection of the Romanovs (59 page)

44.
Agnes Gallagher, affidavit of December 22, 1930, in Hamburg, XXIV, 4481–4493.

45.
Statement of Serge Botkin, March 1929, in Ian Lilburn Collection.

46.
Auclères, 16.

47.
Cited in Kurth, 131.

48.
Baron Osten-Sacken to Serge Botkin, letter of June 29, 1926, in Ian Lilburn Collection.

49.
Dr. Theodor Eitel, report of December 22, 1926, in Hamburg, VIII, 1394–1402.

50.
See diary of Vera von Klemenz, August 21, 1927, in Rathlef-Keilmann, 168; affidavit of Agnes Gallagher, December 22, 1930, in Hamburg, XXIV, 4481–4493.

51.
Duke Georg of Leuchtenberg to Olga Alexandrovna, letter of August 26, 1927, in Hamburg, XIV, 2552–2557.

52.
Diary of Faith Lavington, September 19, 1927, in Hamburg, XXXIV, 6402–6428.

53.
Ibid. September 26, 1927.

54.
Ibid., November 15, 1927.

55.
Ibid.

56.
Agnes Wasserschleben, notes of July 28, 1929, in Hamburg, IV, 1017–1024.

57.
Diary and notes of Vera von Klemenz, June 17, 1927, in Rathlef-Keilmann, 161.

58.
Ibid., June 23, 1927, in Rathlef-Keilmann, 161–162.

59.
Ibid., June 24, 1927, in Rathlef-Keilmann, 163.

60.
Ibid., July 17, 1927, in Rathlef-Keilmann, 164.

61.
Botkin,
Woman Who Rose Again
, 309.

62.
Ibid., 69.

63.
Diary of Faith Lavington, September 26, 1927, in Hamburg, XXXIV, 6402–6428.

64.
Botkin,
Woman Who Rose Again
, 48, 66; Agnes Gallagher, affidavit of December 22, 1930, in Hamburg, XXIV, 4481–4493.

65.
Kurth, 166.

66.
AA, dictated replies to questions, May 8, 1929, 5, in Ian Lilburn Collection.

67.
Kurth, 197.

68.
Botkin,
Woman Who Rose Again
, 45.

69.
Ibid., 44.

70.
Ibid., 45.

71.
See Botkin,
Woman Who Rose Again
, 45; Agnes Gallagher, affidavit of December 22, 1930, in Hamburg, XXIV, 4481–4493.

72.
Diary of Faith Lavington, February 21, 1928, in Hamburg, XXXIV, 6402–6428.

73.
Duke Dimitri of Leuchtenberg, letter of March 5, 1961, quoted in Vorres, 239–240.

74.
See diary of Faith Lavington, December 16, 1927, in Hamburg, XXXIV, 6402–6428; Gilliard and Savitch, 99.

75.
Diary of Faith Lavington, September 26, 1927, in Hamburg, XXXIV, 6402–6428.

76.
Ibid., November 8, 1927.

77.
Ibid., November 30, 1927.

78.
Ibid., February 21, 1928.

12 The Making of a Myth

1.
See Gilliard and Savitch, 138; Madeleine Zanotti, statement of February 9, 1939, in Hamburg, Bln III, 167.

2.
Alexander Conrad to Alexander Mikhailovich, letter of December 14, 1928, in Gilliard and Savitch, 140–141.

3.
Maria von Hesse, quoted in Gilliard and Savitch, 141.

4.
Diary of Faith Lavington, January 31, February 13, and March 9, 1928, in Hamburg, XXXIV, 6402–6428.

5.
Ibid., January 31, 1928.

6.
Prince Felix Yusupov to Gilliard, letter of December 10, 1928, quoted in Gilliard and Savitch, 144–145; see also Yusupov, 113–114.

7.
Prince Felix Yusupov to Andrei Vladimirovich, letter of September 19, 1927, in Kurth, 186.

8.
Auclères, 116.

9.
AA to Alexei Miliukov, July 11, 1965, in Miliukov tapes.

10.
Statement of Anatole Mordvinov, Oberst-dorf, August 27, 1928, in Gilliard and Savitch, 94.

11.
Gilliard and Savitch, 94–95.

12.
Ibid., 93.

13.
Ibid., 94.

14.
Auclères, 98.

15.
Statement of Felix Dassel, April 19–20, 1929, in Hamburg, Bln I, 130–131.

16.
Drawn from Summers and Mangold, 227–228.

17.
Testimony of Felix Dassel, April 22, 1958, in Hamburg, III, 475–476; protocol of Duke Georg of Leuchtenberg, Felix Dassel, and Otto Bornemann, Munich, September 19, 1927, in Ian Lilburn Collection.

18.
Protocol of Duke Georg of Leuchtenberg, Felix Dassel, and Otto Bornemann, Munich, September 19, 1927, in Ian Lilburn Collection; Dassel, 26.

19.
Protocol of Duke Georg of Leuchtenberg, Felix Dassel, and Otto Bornemann, Munich, September 19, 1927, in Ian Lilburn Collection.

20.
Ibid.

21.
Ibid.

22.
Testimony of Felix Dassel, April 24, 1958, in Hamburg, II, 352–366.

23.
Protocol of Duke Georg of Leuchtenberg, Felix Dassel, and Otto Bornemann, Munich, September 19, 1927, in Ian Lilburn Collection.

24.
Protocol of Duke Georg of Leuchtenberg, Felix Dassel, and Otto Bornemann, Munich, September 19, 1927, in Ian Lilburn Collection; Tatiana Botkin, affidavit of May 2, 1929, in Hamburg, Bln I, 113–127.

25.
Dassel, 28–29; testimony of Felix Dassel, April 24, 1958, in Hamburg, II, 352–366.

26.
Protocol of Duke Georg of Leuchtenberg, Felix Dassel, and Otto Bornemann, Munich, September 19, 1927, in Ian Lilburn Collection.

27.
Dassel, 18–19; protocol of Duke Georg of Leuchtenberg, Felix Dassel, and Otto Bornemann, Munich, September 19, 1927, in Ian Lilburn Collection.

28.
Protocol of Duke Georg of Leuchtenberg, Felix Dassel, and Otto Bornemann, Munich, September 19, 1927, in Ian Lilburn Collection.

29.
Diary of Faith Lavington, September 19, 1927, in Hamburg, XXXIV, 6402–6428.

30.
Diary of Nicholas II (then Tsesarevich Nicholas), April 16/27, 1891, in GARF, F. 601, Op. 1, D. 225.

31.
Dassel, 37.

32.
Diary of Vera von Klemenz, September 18, 1927, in Rathlef-Keilmann, 169.

33.
Dassel, 36–37.

34.
Dassel, 38–39; statement of Otto Bornemann, August 8, 1952, in Hamburg, Bln VI, 211–212.

35.
Excerpts from the diary of Faith Lavington, September 19, 1927, in Hamburg, XXXIV, 6402–6428.

36.
Protocol of Duke Georg of Leuchtenberg, Felix Dassel, and Otto Bornemann, Munich, September 19, 1927, in Ian Lilburn Collection.

37.
Dassel, 34–35.

38.
Protocol of Duke Georg of Leuchtenberg, Felix Dassel, and Otto Bornemann, Munich, September 19, 1927, in Ian Lilburn Collection.

39.
Dassel, 47–48.

40.
We are grateful to Tim Welsh for suggesting this last hypothesis.

41.
Testimony of Felix Dassel, April 24, 1958, in Hamburg, II, 331–366.

42.
Gerda von Kleist, Hamburg, May, 1958

43.
Affidavit of Baroness Marie von Kleist, July 5, 1929, entered into evidence May 20, 1958, in Hamburg, III, 569–574.

44.
See
Illustrierte Blatt
, Frankfurt, April 4, 1927; Hamburg, Summary of Evidence in
Frau Anna Anderson in Unterlengenhardt v. Barbara, Herzogin Christian Ludwig zu Mecklenburg, Ludwig, Prinz von Hesse und bei Rhein
, May 18, 1967, 74.

45.
Botkin,
Anastasia
, 18.

46.
Baron Vassili Osten-Sacken, statement of July 1, 1929, in Hamburg, XXIV, 4512–4516; Tatiana Botkin, affidavit of May 2, 1929, in Hamburg, Bln I, 113–127.

47.
Tatiana Botkin, affidavit of May 2, 1929, in Hamburg, Bln I, 113–127.

48.
Botkin,
Anastasia
, 23.

49.
Baron Vassili Osten-Sacken, statement of July 1, 1929, in Hamburg, XXIV, 4512–4516; Botkin,
Anastasia
, 27.

50.
Tatiana Botkin, affidavit of May 2, 1929, in Hamburg, Bln I, 113–127.

51.
Ibid.

52.
Gilliard,
Thirteen Years
, 209, 213; Gilliard and Savitch, 115.

53.
Baron Osten-Sacken, affidavit, July 1, 1929, in Hamburg, XXIV, 4512–4516.

54.
Olga Alexandrovna to Tatiana Botkin, letter dated August 30, 1926, in Hamburg XXXIV, 6370.

55.
Botkin,
Real Romanovs
, 273.

56.
Gleb Botkin, affidavit of July 20, 1938, in Hamburg, Bln I, 101–112.

57.
Botkin,
Real Romanovs
, 260–262; private information to the authors.

58.
Botkin,
Real Romanovs
, 260.

59.
Gleb Botkin, affidavit of July 20, 1938, in Hamburg, Bln I, 101–112.

60.
Ibid.

61.
See Botkin,
Woman Who Rose Again
, 260–267.

62.
Gleb Botkin, affidavit of July 20, 1938, in Hamburg, Bln I, 101–112.

63.
Botkin,
Real Romanovs
, 287.

64.
Botkin,
Woman Who Rose Again
, 60.

65.
Gleb Botkin, affidavit of July 20, 1938, in Hamburg, Bln I, 101–112.

66.
Botkin,
Woman Who Rose Again
, 53–54; Rathlef-Keilmann, 183.

67.
Rathlef-Keilmann, 183; Botkin,
Real Romanovs
, 286; Gleb Botkin, affidavit of July 20, 1938, in Hamburg, Bln I, 101–112.

68.
Botkin,
Real Romanovs
, 286; Gleb Botkin, affidavit of July 20, 1938, in Hamburg, Bln I, 101–112.

69.
Gleb Botkin, affidavit of July 20, 1938, in Hamburg, Bln I, 101–112; Rathlef-Keilmann, 183.

70.
Klier and Mingay, 152.

71.
Private information to the authors.

13 “A Gruesome Impression”

1.
See Kurth, 156.

2.
See, for example, Rathlef-Keilmann, 112–114, and Kurth, 126 and 276.

3.
Botkin,
Woman Who Rose Again
, 147–149; Gleb Botkin, affidavit of July 20, 1938, in Hamburg, Bln I, 101–112.

4.
Prince Christopher of Greece, 219.

5.
Xenia Georgievna, Mrs. Herman Jud, testimony of March 16–17, 1959, at the West German consulate in New York City, in Hamburg, VII, 1214–1230.

6.
Diary of Faith Lavington, February 13, 1928, in Hamburg, XXXIV, 6402–6428.

7.
Agnes Gallagher, affidavit of December 22, 1930, in Hamburg, XXIV, 4481–4493.

8.
Kurth, 208–209; AA to Alexei Miliukov, April 17, 1965, in Miliukov tapes.

9.
Kurth, 210.

10.
AA, dictated replies to questions, May 8, 1929, p. 8, in Ian Lilburn Collection.

11.
New York Herald Tribune
, February 10, 1928.

12.
Xenia Georgievna, Mrs. Herman Jud, testimony of March 16–17, 1959, in Hamburg, VII, 1214–1230.

13.
Ibid.

14.
Ibid.

15.
Ibid.

16.
Margharita Derfelden, affidavit of April 22, 1959, in Hamburg, VII, 1329–1337.

17.
See Horan, 141.

18.
Ibid.

19.
Xenia Georgievna, Mrs. Herman Jud, testimony of March 16–17, 1959, in Hamburg, VII, 1214–1230.

20.
Kurth, 217; Chavchavadze, 236.

21.
Princess Nina Georgievna to Brien Horan, quoted in Horan, 144–145.

22.
Xenia Georgievna, Mrs. Herman Jud, testimony of March 16–17, 1959, in Hamburg, VII, 1214–1230.

23.
In
Literary Digest
98 (July 7, 1928): 37.

24.
Hall and Van Der Kiste, 233.

25.
Prince Christopher of Greece, 223.

26.
See Auclères, 184.

27.
Botkin,
Woman Who Rose Again
, 170.

28.
Botkin,
Real Romanovs
, 275–276.

29.
Andrei Vladimirovich to Serge Botkin, letter of December 25, 1927, in Ian Lilburn Collection.

30.
See Kurth, 221–224.

31.
Botkin,
Woman Who Rose Again
, 239–244; Gleb Botkin, deposition of July 20, 1938, in Hamburg, Bln I, 101–112; AA, affidavit of August 10, 1938, in Hamburg, Bln I, 92–100.

32.
Auclères, 184.

33.
Kurth, 224.

34.
Ibid., 227.

35.
Walter Ruch, statement of May 2, 1961, in Hamburg, XV, 2698–2700.

36.
Kurth, 226; private information to the authors.

37.
See Clarke, 98–102, for discussion of imperial finances; Alexander Kerensky, in Sokolov, 34–35; Alexandra Feodorovna to Nicholas II, letter of August 27, 1915, in GARF, F. 601, Op. 1, D. 1149; Benckendorff, 89, 125; Vorres, 245.

38.
AA, declaration of December 15, 1928, in Botkin,
Woman Who Rose Again
, 203; AA, affidavit of August 10, 1938, in Hamburg, Bln I, 92–100; Gleb Botkin, deposition of July 20, 1938, in Hamburg, Bln I, 101–112.

39.
See, for example, Botkin,
Woman Who Rose Again
, 201 passim; and Lovell, 193 passim.

40.
Vorres, 179.

41.
See Berkman, 149.

42.
See Kurth, 233–235.

43.
Victoria, marchioness of Milford Haven, to Princess Xenia Georgievna, letter of July 23, 1930, in Hamburg, XXXII, 3276.

44.
Gilliard and Savitch, 10; Kurth, 229.

45.
Botkin,
Woman Who Rose Again
, 238.

46.
Gleb Botkin to Xenia Alexandrovna, letter of October 18, 1928, in Hamburg, VII, 1211–1213.

47.
Botkin,
Woman Who Rose Again
, 284–285.

48.
Botkin,
Anastasia
, 201–203.

49.
Kurth, 231–232.

50.
Botkin,
Woman Who Rose Again
, 7.

51.
Botkin,
Real Romanovs
, 255, 265; Botkin,
Woman Who Rose Again
, 44, 223–226.

52.
Botkin,
Woman Who Rose Again
, 286.