My empress; twenty-three years of intimate life with the empress of all the Russias from her marriage to the day of her exile

by Marfa Mouchanow

CONTENTS

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CHAPTER		PAGE
I	My Appointment	[11]
II	The First Months of the Czarina’s Married Life	[20]
III	Birth of Grand Duchess Olga	[33]
IV	The Coronation	[46]
V	Visits Abroad	[59]
VI	The Grand Duchess Elizabeth	[72]
VII	The Czarina’s Family Relations	[82]
VIII	Life at Czarskoi Selo	[94]
IX	The Court and Attendants of the Czarina	[105]
X	The Czarina and St. Petersburg Society	[117]
XI	The Czarina and Her Mother-in-Law	[129]
XII	The Czarina’s Daily Occupations	[141]
XIII	The Japanese War and the Birth of the Czarevitsch	[152]
XIV	The Czarina, Her Children and Her Charities	[164]
XV	The First Revolution	[176]
XVI	The Czarina’s Friends	[188]
XVII	The Great War	[200]
XVIII	Disasters and the Second Revolution	[211]
XIX	How the Czarina Was Arrested	[222]
XX	Life in Prison	[236]
XXI	Exile—I Am Dismissed	[249]

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ILLUSTRATIONS

The ex-Czarina Alexandra of Russia	[Frontispiece]
	FACING PAGE
The ex-Czar Nicholas II of Russia	[20]
Winter Palace, Petrograd	[34]
Alexander Hall in the Kremlin at Moscow	[44]
Throne Room in the Kremlin at Moscow	[52]
Old Banquet Hall of the Czars	[70]
Rasputin	[80]
The ex-Czarina of Russia and her Four Daughters	[102]
Grounds of the Imperial Palace at Tzarskoié Sélo	[122]
Grand Duke Michael	[132]
Grand Duchess Olga	[144]
The ex-Czarevitch	[156]
The ex-Czarina and her Son	[168]
The Grand Staircase, Winter Palace, Petrograd	[178]
Grand Duchess Elizabeth	[188]
Grand Duchess Anastasia	[220]

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MY EMPRESS