Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness From Romanov Russia by Michael Farquhar

Secret Lives of the Tsars: Three Centuries of Autocracy, Debauchery, Betrayal, Murder, and Madness From Romanov Russia by Michael Farquhar

Author:Michael Farquhar [Farquhar, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Royalty, History, Europe, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Modern, 18th Century
ISBN: 9780812979053
Google: 3TPUnQEACAAJ
Amazon: 0812979052
Goodreads: 18666053
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2014-04-15T20:43:22+00:00


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*42 While her son disdained all the ceremony and glitter of sovereignty, and opted to live quietly, his haughty, cold, and categorical mother, Dowager Empress Maria, reveled in her royal position. “The Empress Mother is the one who displays her imperial state,” Savary reported to Talleyrand. “Every external honor, every homage is directed to that point .… The great personages of St. Petersburg are careful not to let two weeks pass without making an appearance at the Empress Mother’s. [Empress] Elizabeth [Alexander’s wife] almost never appears there, but the Emperor dines there three times a week and often sleeps there.”



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