18 Grand Duke Nicholas: Pares, 501.
19 Grand Duke Dmitry: Time, March 16, 1941; Kschessinska, 150–60, 248.
20 The fate of the suite: Pares, 499
21 The ministers: Pares, 500. Prince Lvov: Kokovtsov, 545.
22 Alexeiev and Kornilov: Pares, 500. Brusilov and Polivanov, ibid., 501.
23 “The Poles are besieging Russian fortresses”: Vorres, 232.
24 Sukhomlinov: Escaped in a sailboat: Kokovtsov, 526. Dedicated his memoirs to the Kaiser: Tuchman, 63. Wife married a Georgian officer and was killed: Vyrubova, 191.
25 Buchanan: Buchanan, II, 93, 261.
26 Benckendorff: Benckendorff, vii, 166. Fredericks: Botkin, 40
27 Vyrubova, Polar Star: Vyrubova, 276–7. Gorky: ibid., 292–4.
28 Gilliard: from his obituary, Gazette de Lausanne, June 8, 1962.
29 Iliodor: New York Herald Tribune, July 5, 1933. Time, Feb. 11, 1952.
30 Maria Rasputin: Time, Dec. 4, 1939. In November, 1966, a circus poster advertising Mlle. Rasputin was on display in a collection of circus posters at the Lincoln Center Museum in New York City.
31 Kschessinska instructed Margot Fonteyn: Kschessinska, 237. Danced at Covent Garden, 238.
32 Yussoupov: The author attended the 1965 trial in its entirety.
33 Hemophilia. Alfonso and Gonzalo; McKusick, 94. The possibility that hemophilia will recur in this family is remote: Armand J. Quick, M.D. “International Forum on Hemophilia,” Spectrum, Vol. 10, No. 2, (March-April, 1962).
34 The legend of the Romanov gold. All Imperial properties taken: Benckendorff, 125–6. Nicholas’s capital on abdication: Benckendorff, 89. The relics buried near Paris: Vorres, 171. Marie’s jewels valued at $2 million: ibid., 183. Many appeared in Queen Mary’s possession: ibid., 184. Funds in Berlin: ibid., 179. Valued at $1,500: New York Herald Tribune, Nov. 18, 1965.
35 English deposits brought back to Russia: Vorres, 179.
36 “I see Buchanan tomorrow”: AF to N, 123, 125.
37 Sir Edward Peacock. Instructed by King George V: Vorres, 183. “I am pretty sure there never was any money”: ibid., 246.
38 The Tsar in London: Benckendorff, 146. In Rome: ibid., 147. Family on a ship in the White Sea: Bulygin, 272. Dozens of claimants: ibid., 271, 276–7.
39 Numerous Anastasias: Vorres, 201, 202. Mrs. Anderson and Grand Duchess Olga: ibid., 175–6. “Dear Aunt Olga”: ibid., 200. “My telling the truth does not help”: from a letter published in Life, Dec 30, 1963, written by Ian Vorres.
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