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Read Ebook: The Argosy Vol. 51 No. 4 April 1891 by Various Wood Charles W Charles William Editor
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This is the only authentic autobiography of the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nicholaevna, fourth daughter of the late Emperor Nicholas II and the late Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia.
The Grand Duchess Anastasia furnishes authentic information and many previously unpublished details concerning the life of the Imperial Family and suite from the days of her childhood to the date of the murder of her parents and other members of her Family in Ekaterinburg on the night of July 16-17, 1918.
Her story is divided into six major parts: the youthful years, the period of the First World War, arrest and exile, life in Tobolsk, life in Ekaterinburg, and the period after the tragedy which includes her rescue and escape to Bukovina.
The life of a Grand Duchess of Russia was no downy bed of roses. Discipline was imposed by the Tsar and Tsarina, particularly the latter. Study was an essential duty which took many hours. During the war years there were responsibilities connected with the operation of hospitals for the wounded. Always over the Family hung the fear of the possible demise of the heir to the throne, the young Tsesarevich and Grand Duke Alexei Nicholaevich, who had inherited haemophilia through his Mother.
The Grand Duchess Anastasia rejects vigorously various accusations directed against each of her parents. She explains in her preface the reasons for her long submergence and for her present re-emergence forty-five years after her reported death.
Her style is brisk and invigorating. Her sense of humor repeatedly delights with accounts of lighter events and anecdotes.
This is an invaluable historical record.
ANASTASIA
Anastasia Nicholaevna of Russia
Volume I
ROBERT SPELLER & SONS, PUBLISHERS New York
First edition All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
WITH LOVE AND ESTEEM
I dedicate this book
Acknowledgements
The present book could never have been completed without the encouragement, inspiration and help of friends who were interested in having the story of my family, as known to me, the youngest of the four daughters of the late Emperor Nicholas II and the Empress Alexandra, and my own story made known to the world.
Table of Contents
PART ONE THE YOUTHFUL YEARS 1
PART TWO THE FIRST WORLD WAR 73
PART FOUR TOBOLSK 209
PART FIVE EKATERINBURG 263
Index 383
FRONTISPIECE
The Grand Duchess Anastasia
FIRST GROUP
The Grand Duchess Anastasia
Announcement of Birth of the Grand Duchess Anastasia
The Empress Alexandra
The Grand Duchess Anastasia, the Tsesarevich Alexei and the Emperor Nicholas II
The Tsesarevich Alexei, the Empress Alexandra and the Emperor Nicholas II
The Russian Imperial Family on visit to the British Royal Family
The Grand Duke Alexander and the Grand Duchess Xenia and Their Children
Alexander Palace, Tsarskoe Selo
The New Palace, Livadia
Nicholas II
The Empress Alexandra
The Tsesarevich Alexei
Nicholas II and the Empress Alexandra
The Grand Duchess Anastasia
The Grand Duchesses Marie, Tatiana, Anastasia and Olga
The Empress Alexandra with Her Daughters
Nicholas II and the Empress Alexandra and Their Children
The Grand Duchesses Olga and Tatiana
The Grand Duchesses Marie and Anastasia
The Grand Duchesses Anastasia, Olga, Tatiana and Marie
Nicholas II
The Grand Duchess Anastasia, the Empress Alexandra and President Raymond Poincar?
SECOND GROUP
The Dowager Empress Marie
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