Nicholas and Alexandra

41 Private visit to Petrograd: Paleologue, II, 68.

42 Anna and the Empress: Vyrubova, 124.

43 The ministers aghast: Pares, 139; Gilliard, 265.

44 “Gentlemen,… I leave for Stavka”: Vyrubova, 125.

45 The Tsar’s letter: Paleologue, II, 70–1.

46 “God be praised”: ibid., 62–3. “N. came in with a kind, brave smile”: N to AF, 70.

47 “The Grand Duke was really a great soldier”: Pares, 201.

48 Alexandra’s letter to Nicholas: AF to N, 113–16.

49 Relief in England and France: Gilliard, 138–9. Nicholas a figurehead: Golovine, 235; Pares, 275.

50 Alexeiev: Knox, 49; Hanbury-Williams, 261. “My cross-eyed friend”: N to AF, 55. “I have such good help”: ibid., 74.

51 The front stabilized: Golovine, 237.

52 Germans transferred: Florinsky, 1333. 1.2 million men: Golovine, 98.

53 Hindenburg: Pares, 367. Total casualties were 7.9 million: Golovine, 93.

54 Importance of the military collapse of 1915: Mosolov, 23–4; Florinsky, End, 75.

CHAPTER 23 THE FATEFUL DECEPTION

 1 “To some it may seem unnecessary”: Buxhoeveden, 192.

 2 Hospitals: Vyrubova, 108–9.

 3 “I have seen the Empress of Russia”: ibid., 109–10.

 4 “Tsaritsa, stand near me”: ibid., 110.

 5 “Very bad wounds”: AF to N, 11. “Three operations”: ibid., 12. “My nose is full of hideous smells”: ibid., 26. “I went in to see the wound of our standard bearer”: ibid., 41. “An officer of the 2nd Rifles”: ibid., 24. “Whole arm was cut off”: ibid., 25. “I had wretched fellows”: ibid., 26.

 6 “During an operation a soldier died”: ibid., 31. “A young boy kept begging for me”: ibid., 32. “The young boy gradually getting worse”: ibid., 33.

 7 “My poor wounded friend is gone”: ibid., 53.

 8 630 letters in a black suitcase: AF to N, Pares’s Introduction, vi; Pares, 248.

 9 “I yearn for your kisses”: AF to N, 248. “It was hard bidding you goodbye”: ibid., 3. “I gave my goodnight kiss”: ibid., 14. “I try to forget everything”: ibid., 246.

10 “So much sorrow and pain”: ibid., 256. “We show nothing of what we feel”: ibid., 21. “32 years ago my child’s heart”: ibid., 249. “Our children be equally blessed”: ibid., 267.

11 “My eyes are moist”: N to AF, 169. “I do not know how I could have endured it all”: ibid., 122.

12 “The sun behind the trees”: AF to N, 108. “The pink sky”: ibid., 237. “The Dnieper broke up yesterday”: N to AF, 160.

13 “Baby madly enjoys your bath”: AF to N, 51. “The girls are wild”: ibid., 58. “Baby eats lots of blini”: ibid., 272. “Baby … on the balalaika”: ibid., 310. “Marie, alas”: ibid., 43. “To get brown”: ibid., 334.

14 “He dreads the night”: ibid., 41. “Baby was awfully cheery and gay”: ibid., 318. “This afternoon I spent in Baby’s room”: ibid., 318.

15 “Twenty years have I spent in Russia”: Buxhoeveden, 186.

16 “What has happened to the Germany of my childhood?”: Gilliard, 110. “I have no news of my brother”: ibid., 109.

17 “I blush to have been a German”: Paleologue, I, 239.

18 “I long that our troops”: AF to N, 9. “I do wonder what will be”: ibid., 288.

19 “Forgive me, precious one”: ibid., 62. “Be more autocratic”: ibid., 57.

20 “That horrid Rodzianko”: ibid., 110. “We’re not a constitutional country”: ibid., 145. “For Baby’s sake, we must be firm”: ibid., 305.

21 Rasputin: Gilliard, 141.

22 Rasputin’s call to Anna: Paleologue, I, 137.

23 Anna’s accident: Vyrubova, 118–19; Pares, 223; Paleologue, I, 257.

24 “No, harken unto Our Friend”: AF to N, 86.

25 “I am haunted by Our Friend’s wish”: ibid., 87. “I fully trust in Our Friend’s wisdom”: ibid., 390.

26 “The bedroom was small”: Yussoupov, 203.

27 “All were drawn up the same way”: Mosolov, 153. “A lady in a low-cut dress”: ibid., 153. A supply prepared in advance: Fulop-Miller, 236.

28 Payment for Rasputin’s services: Mosolov, 148.

29 “Anastasia Shapovalenkova”: Fulop-Miller, 183. “An unknown woman”: ibid., 184. “Madame Likart”: ibid., 185. “The wife of Colonel Tatarinov”: ibid., 185. These episodes also appear in the Red Archives (Krasnyi Arkhiv), 25, 42, 44, 50.

30 “Maria Gill”: Fulop-Miller, 188. Katia: ibid., 189. Utilia: ibid., 190; Red Archives, 47, 29, 30.

31 The detectives: Fulop-Miller, 190. Two angry husbands: ibid., 294; Pares, 298. The Villa Rode: Fulop-Miller, 196–7; Red Archives, 45.

32 Drunkenness: Fulop-Miller, 199; Red Archives, 28, 41, 43, 48.

33 Titillated Petrograd: Fulop-Miller, 200. “The Emperor Tiberius”: Marye, 446.

34 The Yar: Paleologue, I, 331. “I was at Yar”: Bruce Lockhart, 125–6. Exposed himself; the “Old Girl”: Paleologue, I, 331. Nicholas summons Rasputin: Pares, 225. “My enemy Dzhunkovsky”: AF to N, 105.

35 “Remember that I need neither the Emperor or yourself”: Paleologue, I, 147.

36 Rasputin’s telegrams: AF to N: 35, 144, 149.

37 “It is getting empty in the villages”: Pares, 253.

38 Rasputin and Paleologue: Paleologue, I, 292–3.

39 Cancel all passenger trains: AF to N, 195.

40 “Brother, go and help them sing”: Fulop-Miller, 269. Khvostov’s appointment due to Rasputin: Kerensky, Crucifixion, 221.

41 “Responsible government … would be the ruin”: AF to N, 290.

42 Nicholas’s reaction to her letters: Pares, 252.

43 Witte’s death: N to AF, 29. “Do not drag Our Friend into this”: ibid., 298.

44 Nicholas unwilling to deprive Alexandra of Rasputin: Gilliard, 177.

CHAPTER 24 THE GOVERNMENT DISINTEGRATES

 1 Fredericks in 1905: Buxhoeveden, 232.

 2 “When the Emperor went to war”: Pares, 280.

 3 “Think, my wify”: N to AF, 71–2. “Yes, truly, you ought to be my eyes and ears”: ibid., 269. “You will truly help me”: ibid., 270. “There is nothing to forgive you for”: ibid., 289.

 4 “Speak like a waterfall in Russian”: AF to N, 409.