Tatiana Romanov, Daughter of the Last Tsar by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Westholme Publishing

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1. The initials of the Grand Duchesses.

2. Nicholas Konstantinovich Karaganzov, Cornet of His Majesty’s Own Life Guards Cuirassier Regiment.

3. The “Manège” or indoor riding exercise ring at Tsarskoe Selo was first built in 1785 by Ilya Neyelov, but was extensively redesigned and rebuilt by neoclassical court architect Vasiliy Stasov in 1819. The Stasov renovations gave the Manezh its current appearance. Minor changes were made in 1895 and 1907, but the building was used continually for riding exercises as well as for regimental social events, including the Christmas party mentioned here—a tradition started by Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra in 1907. The Manege still exists today at 16 Sadovaya Ulitsa, Pushkin.

4. From Anna Vyrubova, Memories of the Russian Court, pp. 118–119: “At a little past five o’clock of the afternoon of January 2, 1915, I took the train at Tsarskoe for a short visit to my parents in St. Petersburg. With me in my carriage was Mme. Skiff, a sister of a distinguished officer of Cuirassiers. We sat talking the usual commonplaces of travel when suddenly, without a moment’s notice, there came a tremendous shock and a deafening crash, and I felt myself thrown violently forward, my head towards the roof of the carriage, and both legs held as in a vise in the coils of the steam-heating apparatus. The overturned carriage lurched and broke in two like an eggshell and I felt the bones of my left leg snap sharply. So intense was the pain that I momentarily lost consciousness. Too soon my senses returned to me and I found myself firmly wedged in the wreckage of wood and iron, a great bar of steel crushing my face, and my mouth so choked with blood that I could not utter a sound. All I could do in my agony was silently to pray that God would give me the relief of a quick death, for I could not believe that any human being could endure such pain and live. . . . At the end of the journey to Tsarskoe Selo I dimly recognized the Empress and the four Grand Duchesses who had come to the station to meet the train. Their faces were full of sympathy and grief, and as they bent over me I found strength to whisper to them ‘I am dying.’ I believed it because the doctors had said so, and because my pain was so great.”

5. Rasputin.

6. Vladimir Nikolaevich Derevenko (1879–1936) was born into a family of the “personal nobility” and graduated from the 1st Kishniev School before enrolling in the Imperial Medical Academy in 1899. He was graduated with highest honors in 1904, and was called to active military service in the Russo-Japanese war as part of the medical staff of the Podolsk 55th Infantry Regiment. He fought with bravery and assisted the wounded during heavy fighting which almost completely destroyed his regiment. In 1908 he successfully defended his thesis and in 1911 he was made an assistant professor in the Department of Clinical Surgery at the Imperial Military Medical Academy.

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